From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 15:55:28 MST
gts wrote:
> Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>
>> The answer is quite simple - if you think the back up is not
>> you (maybe just before dying you exclaim something to this effect),
>> then of course the backup is not you.
>
> Isn't my change of person implicit in my publicized change of position
> on the Iraq issue?
>
> To say publicly that I changed my position on the question of
> attacking Iraq is to say, in effect, that:
>
> "In the past I was a person who believed one way about attacking Iraq
> but in the present I am a person who believes the other way about
> attacking Iraq. I am therefore a different person now than I was in
> the past, at least in this respect."
>
### All you need to make the change of personality official is to have a new
backup (who will then contain your newly acquired political convictions), or
destroy (or otherwise disown) the old backup.
If you insist on getting a new backup every Planck time unit, you might run
out of cash. The method I propose is better.
Rafal
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