From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 00:24:27 MST
Jef Allbright wrote to Lee:
> In your posts later today, two points of your
points
> have become clearer, at least to me: (1) You are
> talking about "survival of identify", and
(2) you
> are saying that in the future, as the technical
> means become available, it makes sense for us to
> value the survival of our identity with
importance
> equal to our current concept of "survival of
self."
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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