X-Message-Number: 21275
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 23:19:30 +0100
From: Henri Kluytmans <>
Subject: Important issues regarding identity

James Swayze wrote :

>1. A backup copy should have rights too if indeed it is equivalent 
>to the original since the original had rights, therefore it would 
>be inhumane to not allow any backup runtime but runtime
>would mean divergence making it no longer a reliable backup. If one 
>claims a backup is not deserving of runtime one then is admitting a 
>copy is not equivelent to the original.

A backup copy is only information, it is not a person, therefore
it should not have any rights by itself.

If a backup copy should be animated, it is because the person 
from which the backup was made, has made it clear that it was 
his or her wish. So it will be out of respect for the wishes of 
the original person when a backup will be animated.

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Your statement shows that you are not making a clear distinction 
between person and identity.

As I have already repeated many times before here at cryonet :

Many people always seem to mix up the terms "person" and "identity" 
and also the terms "information" and "memory". They are not 
interchangable.

identity = the information describing a mind frozen in time

person = the mind when it is in a animated state 
	   (i.e. an information process)

I hope you can see that the difference between identity and 
person is essential in these debates.

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