On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 06:31:25 GMT, no name <oobie@doobie.com> wrote:

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 04:43:13 GMT, Otis Reed <oreed@dontbother.net> wrote:

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 23:23:46 GMT, no name <oobie@doobie.com> wrote:

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 18:04:52 GMT, Otis Reed <oreed@dontbother.net> wrote:

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:50:34 GMT, no name <oobie@doobie.com> wrote:

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:57:46 GMT, KittyKat <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

<Big snip>

This opens up a favorite conundrum of mine. 

If the aliens can  'core dump' as you say, an entire brain imprint
into a new 'vessel' would the self awareness, consciousness,
also be transfered of the original 'person' ?

Yes.

Or would the 'new' me be just a reflection of everything I was ?

A continuation of what you were from the point of replication.  There could
be two of you in two places, each would progress living from there like two
separate people.

As opposed to my 'original self awareness', 
because if you could truly duplicate
that then the two of me in two different places would 
cause ,in effect, me being present in two places at the same time. 
One of me should close his eyes to avoid double vision. 
Please don't make a third. 

What I mean by 'original self awareness'is the
being that sees the world through 'my' eyes, my inner self. 
The part of me that is aware of itself as an individual. 

So the old 'me', that spark inside,
 the thing that processes this living experience
gathered through the body's sensory input, 
seasons it with emotion, and reflects
upon these memories, compairing and analyzing them ,
 to gain wisdom....
That guy would be gone. Right?

They can also manufacuture the body
of a deceased person and recreate them -- they're an exact replica of the
living person, memories intact.

Again, would the reconstituted person have the same Id, ego, self
awareness of the old dead person ? 

Yes.

Or would the replicated being have it's
own self awareness but with all the old memories of the deceased ?

Yes.

Can't be 'yes' to both, can it ?


Why does it have 'its own' self awareness ? 
It is supposed to be carrying mine. Right ?
You said it did.


Sounds like trying to avoid brain cancer death
by transplanting a different head onto your body.