From: Jason Joel Thompson (jasonjthompson@home.com)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2000 - 14:13:18 MST
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Russo" <extropy@russo.org>
> To us, the importance of our continued existence is adequately
> represented by any *identical* copy that continues to carry on with
> our thoughts and memories.
>
> To you, the importance of your continued existence is only adequately
> represented by the program looking at the world through the eyes of
> the original you.
>
> Trying to pretend that those core values can somehow be melded or
> argued around has turned out to be a rather fruitless endeavor. Fun
> and thought-provoking, but fruitless in terms of coming to any kind
> of consensus.
Yes, and you've very correctly identified the core nature of the
disagreement. Even more simply:
You care about *THE* pattern, we care about *A* pattern.
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::jason.joel.thompson::
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