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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (4742)	3/25/2002 4:08:01 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

I was listening to the Art Bell radio show That causes brain damage. Didn't anyone tell you? :-) I'll take my chances in the next realm!! But suppose there is no "next realm"?

To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (4742)	3/25/2002 5:55:26 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

A couple nights ago I was listening to the Art Bell radio show ( tends to be a bit on the edge of reality ), and they were talking about plugging people's brains into computers when the die. Their miinds would continue to function!! Would they really continue to function or would it just be a functional copy but not the same mind? Imagine for example that you record the information, thoughts, memories, personality and so forth on a computer while you are still alive. The computer thinks of itself as being you (unless it can tell from its input that it is a computer). You are still alive and you still function as you. Would you say the computer is you? I would not. Would this change if the process of copying your memories and personality to the computer killed you? I don't see why it would change. Either way it is a copy of you. If you die you are dead there might be someone (if the computer really has a personality, and sentience, rather then just the ability to simulate one I would call it a person and thus "someone" rather then something) who thinks like you, but there would no longer be a you unless you believe in something like a soul, and feel either that the soul will live on in an afterlife or that it will enter the machine. Tim