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JDG said:
You'll have to refresh my memory then, as I honestly don't recall
the
question
There's a clarified version of the question on my weblog at
http://www.theculture.org/rich/sharpblue/archives/000128.html
JDG said:
The problem with your question is that there seems to be plenty of
evidence that not all DNA is created equal - that some DNA is more
important than other DNA. Thus, its hard to really speak about your
hypothetical, as simply speaking about DNA in terms of percentages
doesn't seem
Richard Baker wrote:
An alternative and more science-fictional version of the same sort of
situation. Suppose we have a time scoop that can pluck ancestors of
modern humans out of the past and into the present (after they've
performed their role as ancestors!). Let's suck up enough such
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I don't think anyone would argue that the ancestors
from AD1000, AD1 or 1000BC
Dan said:
When people first had the potential for gaining reflective self-
awareness
during their lifetime.
But is that necessarily a sharp transition? It seems naively to me
that it might be possible to have various different resolutions of
internal models of oneself, rather than it
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Dan said:
When people first had the potential for gaining reflective self-
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
JDG said:
The problem with your question is that there seems to be plenty of
evidence that not all DNA is created equal - that some DNA is more
important than other DNA. Thus, its hard to really speak about your
On 12 Aug 2006, at 11:17PM, jdiebremse wrote:
I should re-emphasize that in both these cases I would presume the
individual to be human until fully satisified that such an
individual is
not human, and presume that the individual has all the rights of an
adult humanuntil fully convinced
