From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 01:14:59 MST
I agree... the soulcatcher chip is not coming under my umbrella of "self",
or even "identity". Although imagine how useful a soulcatcher of yourself
would be...
Emlyn
(soulcatcher: http://home.iae.nl/users/lightnet/world/soulcatcher.htm)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gts [mailto:gts_2000@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, 28 October 2002 17:54
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> Subject: Re: duck me!
>
> If survival of identity *separate from self* (i.e., as
> a non-living label or record) is the only object here
> then this discussion is pointless and trivial.
>
> We might just as well make holographic interactive
> talking images of ourselves now so that posterity will
> be able to pretend to interact with us after we die.
> Such devices would not allow for true *survival*. They
> would be nothing more than high-tech tombstones.
>
> -gts
>
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