A view on cryonics (was Re: [extropy-chat] Bad Forecasts!)

John K Clark jonkc at att.net
Mon Sep 13 19:12:26 UTC 2004


"KPJ" <kpj at sics.se> Wrote:

> If someone copies your memories, edits them to serve
> some purpose, and makes a simulacrum of you,
> an android if you will, with those memories, will it "be" you?

Depends on how extensive the editing is and I don’t believe survival is an
all or nothing matter.

> I think of myself as a verb - what am I?

You are wrong. Your pattern causes your actions not the other way round.

> How much of the johnclarkian pattern must be changed for it
> not to be a John Clark unit?

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  John K Clark     jonkc at att.net







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