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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Souls
Message-ID: <674@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 15:55:54 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 20 15:55:54 1985
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In article <732@utastro.UUCP> padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan) writes:
>> 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?

I beg your pardon, I thought it was obvious.  Which part do you not accept:

1) if you restore a person's body as of the moment of death, you will have
   a dead body?

2) if one has developed a method for restoring memories and attitudes, and
   use it to restore the memories and attitudes of a person at the moment
   of death (to a living body acquired in some unspecified fashion), the
   result will not necessarily be dead?

Or did you think I was asserting that a method for restoring memories and
attitudes was known?  I'm not; I'm only asserting that such a method is
conceivable.  If you disbelieve this, the burden of proof is on you.


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