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From: schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher)
Newsgroups: sci.nanotech
Subject: Re: Is uploading suicide?
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For that matter, how do we know that it's us that wakes up
each morning? All we have for evidence is the memory of
having gone to sleep the previous night. But this mere
memory, identical to what perfect copies of ourselves would
have after being uploaded (or stepping out of the transporter)
is obviously not sufficient for many readers of this thread...

[Now we're getting somewhere.  Just to show yourself what an illusion
 consciousness really is, think back over the previous 20 minutes
 (whenever you read this).  You'll be amazed how little of the time
 you're actually self-aware.
 --JoSH]