----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Russo" <extropy@russo.org>
> You could remove the hard drive from that first machine and duplicate
> it exactly. Then, you could take both hard drives and put them back
> in identical laptops and "wake" them. They would both be running all
> the same programs you were - all at the same point of execution
> points as when you put them to sleep. Which was the original? Who
> cares?
If those programs have discrete self-awareness physically associated with
their hardware, then *they* care-- and that's the whole point.
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