<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">If only you know you have been replaced with a copy, not the copy or anyone else, how do you know now if you have been replaced by a copy? How do you know if are being replaced by a copy every five minutes for your whole life?</div><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"></span></div></div></blockquote></font></span></div></div><span class="gmail-HOEnZb" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#888888">--<span> </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_-6960246502058515411gmail_signature">Stathis Papaioannou</div></font></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">Technically, you would know because there would be a program sent in the copying process that would compare what was there and what was replacing it looking for errors in the copying process.  But........</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Why would I care?    bill w</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 3:32 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stathisp@gmail.com" target="_blank">stathisp@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><div dir="auto">On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 at 4:46 am, Re Rose <<a href="mailto:rocket@earthlight.com" target="_blank">rocket@earthlight.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">"The only way </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">we'll know for sure that any Cryonics procedure works is when we</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">successfully revive somebody"</span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Actually I'm not sure that will be helpful in all cases. I imagine a scenario where a backup copy is uploaded to a host. Upon reanimation it will be completely convinced its consciouness is as the person who was uploaded. Why shouldn't it be? IMHO, the only individual who will even be able to know if the copy is in fact "you" will be you - a copy will not be able to tell. Not even your friends or partners can say if its you. They may be convinced it is you. Only your subjective, internal experience will allow you to be sure if it is you, and that agent will not be able to convince anyone else (including copies) of that.</span></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div></span><div dir="auto">If only you know you have been replaced with a copy, not the copy or anyone else, how do you know now if you have been replaced by a copy? How do you know if are being replaced by a copy every five minutes for your whole life?</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"></span></div></div>
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