To: "'trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com'" 
From: "Hailey, Jay"

Reply-To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com

> (Though I've suddenly seen a story angle with this.  Because your
> consciousness would have reverted to an earlier state, but the world
> that consciousness lives in would have been shaped by the decisions
> your "previous" self(ves) made, and it might not be a good one.
> Imagine being twenty again, but in a world where "you" had already
> lived to be forty or fifty.  A world where "you" had married and had
> children, but your twenty year-old self had never even met your wife
> or husband.)


I'd recommend reading Walter Jon Williams' "Voice of the
Whirlwind" explores these themes. and does peachy.

> I think there would have to be a shift in human philosophy.  People
> want to be unique, people want to think that they matter, but if you
> can be duplicated, if you can be "restored" from death by activating a
> back-up copy, then they are no longer unique, and their struggles
> don't matter.

> Allyn

My stuggles are secondary to survival.  but compared to people who can
flawlesslt duplicate a living human being,  I am still too close to my
stone age Irish ancestors (true, this was last week,) to have a proper
point of view

Also,  google for "Transhumanism"  and see what they have to say

People's idea of what's a people may well change and alter

Jay ~Meow!~

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