uploads, identity

From: Smigrodzki, Rafal (SmigrodzkiR@MSX.UPMC.EDU)
Date: Mon Jun 04 2001 - 13:05:09 MDT


Harvey Newstrom wrote:

> These entities will have no more connection to each other than twins,
> siblings, relatives or even nonrelated people do to each other. By
> simple counting processes of determining how many entities there are, we
> would have to count them separately. If we decide that difference pieces
> of "one" entity do not have to communicate or even be aware of each
> other, we might as well define everybody in the universe as being "one"
> cosmic mind, and be done with it.

Well, there are people who believe just that and I have only one argument -
it's too alien to think about. Perhaps with time my approach or theirs will
prevail, whichever is better compatible with survival (just like everything
else, it's practical consequences that ultimately determine the spread and
survival of a meme). Of course, I think my ideas ARE better, that's why I am
not a Buddhist.
 
Rafal Smigrodzki MD-PhD
Dept Neurology University of Pittsburgh
smigrodzkir@msx.upmc.edu



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