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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 09:54:57 EST
Subject: slight correction

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Dave Pizer wrote in part:

> A person is a unique, continuing process; by that definition, 
> continuity is all that counts.  I guess a conclusion here is totally 
> dependent on how one defines a person.  I like my definition best.  It just 
> 
> happens to be a lot like Ettingers, so that makes me even more confident in 
> 
> it.
> 

Thanks, Dave, but actually I don't have a definition of identity, and I would 
not agree that continuity is ALL that counts. I tend to lean to the 
"quantitative" approach, meaning that we merely make objective statements, 
such as "A is similar to B in such and such a way and to such and such a 
degree." However--and this is probably what you had in mind--I also lean to 
the idea that your "self" must bind space and time, which means that "you" 
most overlap your immediate predecessors and successors, and they in turn 
theirs. This does appear to put a value on physical continuity. 

Robert Ettinger

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