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Raevmo



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(Permalink) Posted: Nov. 12 2011,07:00   

Just in case you have any lingering doubts that Vincent Torley still has some small measure of sanity left, read this.
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Or imagine that the family member opts for a head transplant. Which would you value as the person you loved: the head or the body? And what if the body their head is transplanted onto is robotic? Now imagine that this person wants to load their all their personal memories onto a CD, before they die. Assuming it were doable, would you ascribe any ethical value to the CD? If you’re self-consistent in your ethics, you’d ascribe value to the head and the to the CD. But I wouldn’t. I’d identify more with the loved one’s body, and I’d attach zero importance to the CD. In my book, anything that doesn’t have a body, isn’t even an organism, and therefore isn’t an individual.

Commenter goodusername is shocked.

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After much reflection I finally realized that the best way to describe the cause of the universe is: the great I AM.

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