Harvey Newstrom writes:
 > Some people claim that killing the original biological copy is not
 > murder and does not result in death as long as an identical uploaded
 > copy exists.
GargargarGAR! I would assume even a few 100 ms of realtime neurodynamics would result in statespace trajectories of clones' diverging sufficiently to classify termination of a single clone as "murder". Of course I'm a purist, so sue me.
 > If destroying the moving, thinking body is not murder or death, are
If destroying the emulation of a moving, thinking body is not murder or death, are
 > people claiming that this person is not alive?  If it is alive, how can
people claiming that this upload is not alife?
 > this life be terminated without calling it murder and death?  If it is
 > not alive, when did it used to be alived, when exactly did it cease to
 > be alive, and by what definition?
And just what happens if we apply the inapplicable?
'gene