<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Keith Henson</b> <<a href="mailto:hkhenson@rogers.com">hkhenson@rogers.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I don't think it would necessarily be suicide, but it goes on my list of<br>dire, last resort methods.
I.e., I would opt for destructive copying if<br>that was the only way to get away from where a miles wide asteroid was<br>going to hit.</blockquote><div><br>
Then there is room for more debate regarding personal identity, because
I consider destructive copying much the same as ordinary life (assuming
of course that nothing goes wrong with it). I don't wish to restart the
whole argument, just to point out that despite the endless discussions,
even people on (roughly) the same side can disagree about fundamentals.<br>
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Stathis Papaioannou<br>
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