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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26692