<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 01/05/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Heartland</b> <<a href="mailto:velvethum@hotmail.com">velvethum@hotmail.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;">
Stathis writes :<br>>> >> If I-now think I've survived as a continuation of I-before,<br>>> >> then that's what matters in survival.<br><br>Heartland replied:<br>>> That doesn't matter at all. Why should it matter? Is there an argument for
<br>>> why this<br>>> should matter? If it exists, I would love to read it.</blockquote><div><br>Because that's how people define survival, as in not dying. If someone did claim that sleep was death, the response would be, "No, I went to sleep last night, and I don't feel dead; so whatever evidence you show suggesting that everyone does die when they fall asleep, that just means your definition of death is wrong, or at least different to what everyone in the history of the world who ever thought about death understood by that term." It would be like science discovering that cats and dogs are actually the same species: we would still see them as distinct and would come up with a new definition of species or subspecies to take the place of the old one.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Stathis responds:<br>> The problem I have is with your definition of death.
<br><br>Stathis asks today:<br>> You haven't answered yet (that I have noticed) what you would do if medical<br>> science discovered that you didn't actually survive a situation you hitherto<br>> believed harmless, such as falling asleep or being photographed by a traffic
<br>> camera.<br><br>Can you please answer my questions first? After all, I asked you first. Thanks.<br></blockquote></div><br clear="all">(Sorry, I thought I was answering it - see above).<br><br>-- <br>Stathis Papaioannou