Howard Brazee wrote: > Damien Sullivan wrote: > > People will still die of accidents and suicide and such. Unless we > > get backups, in which case lots more things can change. > In the latest Wil McCarthy book, someone who obviously had backups died > anyway. It didn't make any sense. But he is exploring immortality in an > interesting way. Oddly enough Elizabeth Moon's space opera is doing this. > But her Nebula winner is more interesting in exploring identity with change. Check out _Altered Carbon_ and _Broken Angels_ by Richard K. Morgan. These have a somewhat different angle on effective immortality (although he punts on the identity/continuity/"self"-ness issue). In the first book, even a well-secured backup wasn't secured quite well enough to prevent the permanent demise of the owner. > > We don't remember a lot of our lives in detail as it is. Lots of > > daily details just aren't important. Skills and big events events > > and who to trust are important. > I am no longer the person I used to be, and I have forgotten much of it. > What is the sense of living past infanthood if we don't remember most of it? You get cooler toys. -- Frank Mayhar frank at exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/