<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Dec 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>You are all your<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span></i><i>copies.</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">All</span> my copies have an equal right to call themselves John K Clark<span class="gmail_default" style="">, but all of them would insist that only one of them is "me" because all the copies would start to diverge at the instant they were made, assuming they were exposed to different environmental conditions, because then they would all start having different memories.</span></b></font></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font></span></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark   </span> </b></font></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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