<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​I think what is missing here is the idea of real death. All body cells die. All of them. Yes, cells are replaced while you are living but there is a continuity effected by the still living ones. If all cells are dead there is no continuity possible.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">What y'all seem to be saying is that if you could extract a copy of your memories, put them into hard drive, then download them into some other body or robot, then there are two yous​</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">​. I say there is only one 'you' and if it is dead then it cannot awaken somewhere else. A copy is not the original.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">The original premise of all this is, of course, impossible. bill w​</div><br></div>