Just for practical purposes, this is extremely good advice. I happen to have children, and agree, but also note that in our society we can also "live on" through what do in life, kids or not.
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Just for practical purposes, this is extremely good advice. I happen to have children, and agree, but also note that in our society we can also "live on" through what do in life, kids or not.
Akhenaten
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godless dave
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Jabba, do you understand now how human senses of self do not come from nowhere, but from a chain of biological causality?
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Slowvehicle
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Not so fast, there, Sparky!
If there were dragons, some of them would not have wings.
http://listverse.com/2008/06/17/8-types-of-dragons-you-have-never-heard-of/
...but I know what you mean about some things making more sense after the accident. Been there, done that, have the titanium jaw.
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Akhenaten
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My original intent was to point out that there are more ridiculous discussions to be had than the one we've endured these last months, but it's backfired badly.
Winged/wingless dragons is an eminently more sensible topic than Essential Bayesian Mold.
Winged/wingless dragons is an eminently more sensible topic than Essential Bayesian Mold.
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Slowvehicle
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Silly Pharaoh (may you post forever!).
There is no bottom. You should have took the blue pill...
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tsig
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My blue pill is finasteride and all it does is make me piss.
Slowvehicle
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Now you're just taking the piss, right?
I know, and I know you know, but someone might be misled...
There we go.
pakeha
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Jabba, please link to a given message you cite in your post. Haven't you noticed everyone else does?
No.
Remember the definition of consciousness?
I cry, I weep. I leave this thread for a few days and return to find it has got even more frustrating (and I did not think that was possible).
Jabba, don't reword your misconceptions, it's not going to help you. Instead, do some learning about consciousness. The resources are available to you, there is no excuse for ignoring them.
Jabba, don't reword your misconceptions, it's not going to help you. Instead, do some learning about consciousness. The resources are available to you, there is no excuse for ignoring them.
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It depends on your definition of resurrection. The traditional, mystical meaning of has no place in a discussion of the scientific model (which is the stage we still seem to be at), so we'll have to go with colloquial meanings that might make some sense.
If you destroyed me and recreated me (like a Star Trek transporter), then yes, I would be "resurrected" in a sense. And if you didn't destroy me, and still created a new me, that would still be a resurrection in the same sense. But it would be a different "me". But it would still be a me in any meaningful or useful sense. It would be identical to the original me. (At least at the moment of creation.)
And since that meaning of "resurrect" is the only one that makes any sense in this context, I'm forced to answer your question with a yes. If you meant something else, then you were asking a meaningless question.
PixyMisa
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Jabba, If I have a mold, and use it to make two things - say, two statues - how many statues do I have? (Hint: The answer is two.)
Slowvehicle
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...which one would be the "resurrected" one?
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