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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: LAST WORD on "souls" (I hope!)
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Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 16:19:19 EDT
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> WRONG!  Look, I'm the last one to argue for Wingate's religious beliefs,
> BUT:  it just ain't implied by a person's existence at time A, and later at
> time B, that he must have existed during the time between.  (It happens
> to be always true in the real world, but as a matter of physical law and
> boundary conditions, not as a matter of logic.) [TOREK]

True, Paul.  But what makes the person at time A the same person at time B?
What relates the two "persons" such that they can be said to be the same
person?
-- 
"to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day
 to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human
 being can fight and never stop fighting."  - e. e. cummings
	Rich Rosen	ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr