X-Message-Number: 26692
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:04:26 -0400
From: Francois <>
Subject: For Robert Ettinger

Robert Ettinger said in Message #26656:

>Obviously, a copy differs at least in spatio-temporal location. Is that
>important? We don't know with absolute certainty, but we do know that a
>difference in location *necessarily* implies other differences as well, if
for  no
>other reason because the gravitational interactions are different.

>Are these other differences important? Again, we don't know for certain.
>What we do know for certain is that some subsequent systems are tied to
earlier
>ones by chains of overlap, and others are not, or at any rate less so. In
>other  words, continuity may be present or lacking or reduced. Clearly, a
pair of
>systems tied by continuity are "closer"  than a pair not so tied. Common
>sense tells us to minimize our risk by maximizing continuity.

One thing I know for certain is that differences in location or in time are
irrelevant. Whether I am sitting in my own house, or doing the tourist thing
in Tokyo, or standing on the Moon, my own internal sense of self remains the
same. I am me in my house, me in Tokyo and still me on the Moon. I would
still be me if revived or duplicated a thousand years from now or a million
lightyears away.

Btw, I only just caught up on reading back cryonet messages, which explains
the delay between Robert's comments and my answer. I should have more to say
about all this in the very near future.

Francois
The Devil fears those who learn more
than those who pray

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