X-Message-Number: 25349 Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 08:36:19 -0500 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: CryoNet #25341 - #25348 Hi everyone (except RBR, who no doubt won't read this): I agree with what Francois has written. However here's a way to think of the issue in terms of continuity: Very simple. A brain is continuous if at every time in its existence the next instant of its existence it remains sufficiently close to the brain of the previous instant of its existence. How does this allow such things as duplications of a single brain with an interval of nonexistence of that working brain between them? Very simple: the time in which that brain exists are used to measure it last and next forms... no matter what hiatus of nonexistence others might see between them. After all, if you're brought back into existence after a long period of nonexistence, you'll be completely unaware of that long period. Others may not be, but their experience doesn't count in this definition. Best wishes and long long life to all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=25349