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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:19:56 -0500
Subject: Re: CryoNet #32861 - #32865
From: Freeposity <>

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 4:00 AM, CryoNet <> wrote:
> One comment on the debate over uploading.  I agree entirely with Keith's
> premise that a person could be uploaded in a smooth and reversible manner
> and thus it's philosophically impractical to say the uploaded personality is
> not the same being.  However, Keith's comment "it's only a slight upgrade of
> what's needed to get you back from the frozen state" brings to mind other
> consequences.  One complication of philosophical discussions of cryonics is
> that if one has the technology to rebuild a person from scanning their
> frozen remains, one could readily make multiple copies of that person.  If,
> in the future, a particular copy were killed, the other instances of that
> person would continue.  The problem with copies is twofold : how do you know
> if you're the original

What does it matter? If you found out today that you're a duplicate
are you going to terminate your life or live it?



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