<br><br>On Friday, October 3, 2014, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><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.</div></div><div dir="ltr"></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In what we normally understand as death, all the cells die and are not replaced. But if the cells are replaced, that isn't death.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><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">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.</div></div><div dir="ltr"></div></blockquote><div><br></div>But you seem to <span></span>think a copy *is* the original if it is replaced over time. What basis do you have for making this distinction? <br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><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">The original premise of all this is, of course, impossible. bill w</div><br></div>
</blockquote><br><br>-- <br>Stathis Papaioannou<br>