On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> Any comments about this method of recreating people? It wouldn't meet
> my definition of survival. But it might be interesting to create a new
> person to replace a lost person.
This topic is actually examined, to some extent, in James Halperin's novel The First Immortal. As for my comments, it seems possible but it also seems to require a level of understanding of the brain that would enable us to create SIs, thus destroying society as we know it. That's the problem with most really advanced technologies.
Dan Hook
dhook@andrew.cmu.edu