2009/2/28 Günther Greindl <guenther.grei...@gmail.com>: > The issue that we are very reluctant to die if our backup is ten years > old but need not worry so much if we backed up one hour ago is simply > the heuristic that in one hour we don't change so much, but in ten years > we often change so much that we indeed become a very _different_ person. > > So, what counts is change, not "objective" time. > > What we _are_ is I think more about what we (can) _become_, rather than > a single snapshot at time t_0. And if this becoming is lost, that is the > true tragedy.
The problem with this explanation is that fear of death is only partly, if at all, attenuated by rational considerations. I could probably make my hour old backup do anything I want by holding a gun to his head. -- Stathis Papaioannou --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
