05-28-2009, 02:27 PM
Slamz Wrote:Maybe the question isn't whether or not something is destroyed, but whether or not bringing back the replica is as good as bringing back the original. You died, sure, your atoms got scattered to the winds, but yet here you are again, good as new, like nothing ever happened. Is it "you" again? Why not? If you are just a brain, then recreating that brain to the finest detail is recreating you.
I guess the most practical way to approach it is in terms of the other people or things you interface with.
1. Does this affect your relationships, i.e. with your wife, friends etc. Do they still interact in the same way with the "same old" you?
2. Can you still drive a car and do you have all the skills you had before the incident?
3. Will your life trajectory be changed? After the incident, do you tend to make different choices then you made before?
"Hamilton is really a Colossus to the anti republican party. Without numbers he is an host within himself. They have got themselves into a defile where they might be finished but too much security on the republican part will give time to his talents and indefatigableness to extricate them. We have had only middling performances to oppose to him. In truth when he comes forward there is nobody but yourself who can meet him. His adversaries having begun the attack he has the advantage of answering them and remains unanswered himself. For God's sake take up your pen and give a fundamental reply to Curtius and Camillas" - Thomas Jefferson to James Madison