<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Feb 22, 2010, at 9:52 PM, Spencer Campbell wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">I can not be two people at once.<br></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sure you can. They would be two different people who would go on to lead different lives but they would both be Spencer Campbell. There is nothing paradoxical in this it's just unusual because up to now only one chunk of matter in the universe behaved in a Spencercampbellian way, but someday that might change.</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><br>I will not be taking steps to preserve my brain, because I believe that I will stay dead even if a perfect copy of me is made. </span></blockquote><div><br></div>Then you will be dead in the next few seconds because the human body is constantly rebuilding itself and never does so perfectly. You are last years mashed potatoes.</div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark <br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br></body></html>