On Fri, 13 September 2002, Cliff Stabbert wrote: CS> Is the consciousness that is the CS> same in me as in you also the same CS> as the consciousness in a dog? In CS> a bat? In an ant? I am not a wetware - I am a software running on that wetware. On every appropriate wetware, it looks, is the same "me software". But even dogs probably don't run it. Let alone bats or ants. Humans mostly do. IMHO. Not all my instances are well, you know - so another very good reason for the Singularity. All those megayears of suffering should end ASAP. The bottom line is not so bad. This mountain of pain is small, compared to the post Singularity pleasures. "I" will not miss a bit. I can't. "Nobody" can. And this is good. :-) - Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------- Sign up for ICQmail at http://www.icq.com/icqmail/signup.html