<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>FWIW, you're replaying to Bill's comments not mine at the end there. ;)<br><br><div><div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294);"><font size="3"><span style="line-height: 20px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);">Regards,</span></font></div><div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294);"><font size="3"><span style="line-height: 20px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></font></div><div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294);"><font size="3"><span style="line-height: 20px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);">Dan</span></font></div></div><div style="font-size: 17px; line-height: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294);"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> My latest Kindle book, "Born With Teeth," can be previewed at:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00N72FBA2" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00N72FBA2</a><br></span></div><dl style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.65; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></dl></div><div><br>On Oct 2, 2014, at 11:16 AM, John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"> Suppose you are informed that<br>you have a disease that causes you to die whenever you fall asleep at<br>night so that the person who wakes up in the morning is a completely<br>different Dan Ust who shares your memories. This has been happening<br>every day of your life, but you have only just found out about it.<br>Would this information worry you or make any difference to how you<br>live your life?<br><br></div><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">Absolutely YES. It means that someone with my body and memories will awake tomorrow but it will not be me. </div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><div><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Explain how things would be different if it had been you.<br></span></div><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"> > It means that I will die today. <br></blockquote><div><br></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">It would also mean that for the first time in history o</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">ne human being, Dan Ust, has good evidence that nobody can tell if they're dead or alive, so being dead is a matter of absolutely no importance. </span><br><br></div><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> John K Clark<br></span></div><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></div></div></div></div>
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