On 29/06/07, Heartland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Stathis: > Although you make an exception when the copying takes place gradually > inside your own head, switching atoms in your brain for new ones > obtained from environmental raw materials, and excreting the original > atoms. There is no exception because the two cases are not equivalent when you look at them from the identity of a process (consciousness is an example of a process, not an example of atoms) perspective.
You believe that brain process-interruption causes death. But how can you be sure that your brain processes have not been surreptitiously interrupted at some point? Would you say that you can be sure because you would just know - you would have felt something if it happened, and you didn't feel any such thing? Or would you say that it might well have happened, since you would be unaware of it, but that there is no reason to think that it has happened? If the latter, would you be very upset to learn that this interruption really has happened, to you or to a family member? -- Stathis Papaioannou ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=7d7fb4d8
