Re: Immortality

From: Chris Russo (extropy@russo.org)
Date: Mon Dec 04 2000 - 12:01:28 MST


>A backup would just be a copy- your consciousness would be gone forever.

Could you define "consciousness" for us in the sense of describing
what you would have lost by being restored from a backup?

Thanks,

Chris Russo

-- 
"If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought 
or deed, I will gladly change.  I seek the truth, which never yet 
hurt anybody.  It is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance 
which does harm."
              -- Marcus Aurelius, MEDITATIONS, VI, 21



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