<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Keith Henson</b> <<a href="mailto:hkhenson@rogers.com">hkhenson@rogers.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Materialists, i.e., engineering types, for the most part agree with you<br>that an identical copy of a person (or a computer) is equivalent and for<br>the most part can't imagine why anyone would have a different opinion.
<br></blockquote></div><br>You probably feel that way after these many long discussions. If you ask someone at random who has a scientific view of the world, it is not a foregone conclusion that he will agree. Perhaps that's unfortunate, but it's the way it is.
<br><br>Stathis Papaioannou<br>