<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 4:41 PM, Angel Z. Lopez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zoielsoy@gmail.com" target="_blank">zoielsoy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto"> The brain works on a frequency, when the frequency subsides it looses recognition. You don’t have the technology to reset the exact frequency of that individual. </div><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><div class="m_-273711575544450392h5"><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">It is my understanding that frequency depends on neuron firing and that will vary depending on where you record from the electrodes, right? One part of the brain, say the medulla, is doing one thing, and another, say, the auditory cortex, is doing another. So I don't think there can be one frequency, much less one that is constant.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><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><div class="m_-273711575544450392h5"><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><font size="4">For exactly precisely was the same reason Regina was convinced she was the same conscious person she was when she awoke this morning as she was when she went to bed last night. </font><br></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"> <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>IMHO, the only individual who will even be able to know if the copy is in fact "you" will be you</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><span style="font-size:large">If there is a backup copy that means "you" duplicating machines are available, and that means it would no longer be possible to point to something and say "that and only that is <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div>you". Once nanotech powered "you" duplicating machines are invented the English language is going to need a major revision, particularly in the way it uses personal pronouns. </span><br></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">></div> a copy will not be able to tell.</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><font size="4">Yes exactly, the copy could not tell the difference and neither could anybody else. If subjectively it make no difference and objectively it makes no difference then I have no choice but to conclude it just makes no difference. </font><br></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">></div> Only your subjective, internal experience will allow you to be sure if it is you,<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></span></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4">Yes, the only reason I am sure I am the same person i was yesterday is because I remember being John Clark yesterday.</font></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">></div> and that agent will not be able to convince anyone else (including copies) of that.</span></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4">In the future if something looks and behave like John Clark other people will be convinced it is John Clark, no different than how things are right now.<br></font><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font><br></div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div><span>
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