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Subject: Re: U-Haul from the Milky Way to Andromeda.
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Date: Fri, 10-Aug-84 23:47:30 EDT
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Karl ---
  In the question of clones and immortality, I'd have to
agree with Perlman. Selfness is not dependent on behavior.
Because you have another entity with the same genetic pattern
as yourself does not imply that this new entity is the
same as yourself. Even if you could core dump what we embody
with the term "mind" into the clone he/she/it would still
not be you. The two of you would have the same "life experiences"
up to and including the core dump, but you would no longer be
sharing the same perspectives, etc...
   Philosphers and scientists have long debated what it is
that actual comprises the "soul" of a being...chances are it
doesn't depend on the hardware or the software so much as the
firmware. The combination of the physical brain and the energy
that the brain generates...
   Ah well, it was just an observation...I'll stop myself 
before I begin to ramble...

                  --- Rob DeMillo
                      MACC

  "...I don't know what this is, but it's pointing in your direction..."