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From: padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Souls
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Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 10:33:46 EDT
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> 
> In article <1665@pyuxd.UUCP> rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) writes:
> >> The key point was that the memories and attitudes be the same.  If this
> >> is the case, it is not CLEAR that it is not the same person. [ADAMS]
> >
> >If you alter the person, the "memories and attitudes" of necessity will
> >change.
> >If you "restore" from a "backup" (oh, god, what a horrible analogy) taken
> >before the onset of disease or death, then those experiences will not be
> >incorporated in the restored brain.
> 
> One can restore the memories and attitudes as of the moment of death.  One
> cannot restore the body as of the moment of death, because it would then be
> dead.  This does not apply to the memories and attitudes.

Would you care to prove this?

Padraig Houlahan.


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