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Comment author: torekp 19 February 2014 12:32:19AM 1 point [-]

And if I really accept that this is the case (as it seems to be) then most of the reason for wanting to stay alive at all seems to logically vanish.

Not exactly. What's called for is a reinterpretation of your values, given that you have previously couched them in incoherent terms (insofar as those terms presuppose a metaphysical fact of "identity" that got shaved away by Occam's Razor).

A good place to start in that reinterpretation is with TheOtherDave's questions about the vast set of possible U2 states.

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