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Subject: Re: Can I kill the original?
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 00:49:04 +0100
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Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> A very important side-point here is that there are three
> belief systems on this issue, not just two. ("I am my
> atoms", "I am one consciousness stream", "I am many
> consciousness streams").
There are two viewpoints: "I am physical" and "I am a
process". If you accept that you are a process, then how
can you use physical attributes (such as location, medium,
etc) to differentiate that process from another?
BM
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