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Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 22:12:15 -0500
From: Francois <>
Subject: Reply to Robert Ettinger concerning the definition of identical copy

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I would define identical copies of an individual as copies who do not differ 
from each other by a greater ammount than the difference between an individual 
at time A and the same individual at time A+1 second. There is no real need to 
be more exact than that. After all, every time we go to sleep, the person waking
up in the morning has gone through substantial time intervals where no self 
awareness existed. Yet we still feel a "continuity" of self. So a copy exact to 
that degree can be considered an identical copy.

Francois
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