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From: padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan)
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Subject: Re: More Atheistic Wishful Thinking
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Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 14:58:46 EDT
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> 
> Rich, there is more than one way to parse ``the mind is separate from the
> physical brain and body''. One is a belief in the soul that goes to heaven.
> But there is another. UNIX runs on a great many hardware configurations without
> it being the case that UNIX can run without a hardware configuration, after 
> all. The question is, can you port the ``mind of laura'' which already runs
> well on the squishy hardware that is typing this note to something that is a
> little more durable?
> 
> Note that the idea of what a mind is is not the same thing as what a mind is.
> The idea of what UNIX is is not what UNIX is either.  (Read net.unix-wizards.
> Some people have ideas about UNIX which have nothing to do with any UNIX I
> know...)
> 
> 
> -- 
> Laura Creighton		(note new address!)
> sun!l5!laura		(that is ell-five, not fifteen)
> l5!laura@lll-crg.arpa

Yes, but the point is that Charley rejects the notion of soul, while claiming
that "he" will be resurrected. If the soul is not there to ensure continuity,
then he cannot say for certain that it will be "him" that is resurrected,
and not just a copy (of many copies perhaps). He must claim that either
all copies are indeed Charley, which is absurd, or give up claims of 
identity on being resurrected.

Padraig Houlahan.