Re: Ahumans [was Re: Cryonics and abortion- not happening!]

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 10:27:15 MST

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Clint O'Dell wrote:
>
> I think people will first have to abandon the concept of a
> soul before they're willing to view life as just a
> collection of molecules.

Non sequitur. Whether life is "just a collection of molecules" has
nothing to do with whether or not we have souls. Presumably souls would
follow the laws of physics too.

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