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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 05:36:22 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: "Survival" yet again

Brook Norton writes in part:
 
>We can "continue" (in large part, never 100% unchanged) but not  
"survive". And we can >"continue" as a corpse, as an upload, as a duplicate,  

whatever - all equal options as >continuers - but there are no survivors. And  
so 
concern over which is the true way to >survive is misguided  concern.

Equal options? Surely not.
 
In my view, a survivor is a continuer. Continuers (in particular  your 
qualia) overlap each other in space and time, which allows partial  
identification of later and earlier versions, and we must settle for  that.  
 
The fact that duplicates or whatever would seem "as good as" to  outside 
observers is irrelevant.
 
Robert Ettinger
 



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