> -----Original Message----- > From: Saibal Mitra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > As I have written before, a person is just a computation being implemented > somewhere. Suppose that the person has discovered that he suffers from a > terminal ilness and he dies (the computation ends). Now in principle the > person in question could have lived on if he wasn't diagnosed with this > terminal ilness. Somewhere in the multiverse this person exists. Some time > ago I wrote (I think on the FoR list) that the transformation from the old > dying person to the new person is a continuous one. The process of death > must involve the destruction of the brain. At some time the information > that the person is dying will be lost to the person. The person might even > think he is 20 years old while in reality he is 92. Anyway, the point is > that his brain had stored so much information that adding new information > would lead to an inconsistency. By dumping some of the information, the > information left will be identical to the information in a similar brain > somewhere else of a younger person, free from disease.
Hmm.....and this is a simpler theory, with more explanatory power, than that people are just material objects which eventually wear out? Charles
