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Old 12-09-2009, 12:06 AM   #67
whswhs
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lawrence, KS
Default Re: Is Transhuman Space a "silly" genre?

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Originally Posted by mindstalk View Post
A backup is immortality for the me making the backup. It is not immortality for the later me who got killed while rock climbing, prompting the activation of the backup. We don't have a good word or concept for what it *is* for the later me -- what it is to die knowing that a younger self will appear to fill your shoes.
Sure we do: Reproduction. Asexual organisms do it all the time.

Bill Stoddard
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