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Comment author: shminux 23 December 2014 10:27:08PM 5 points [-]

Not a lottery, more like an insurance policy (which it usually is, literally) without a clear description of benefits. On a related note, I'd take a zombie who thinks it is me over no traces of me any day.

Comment author: Capla 26 December 2014 02:25:16AM 0 points [-]

Why?

Why is a zombie that thinks it's you preferable to a zombie that doesn't?

Comment author: shminux 26 December 2014 02:27:38AM *  0 points [-]

Because then it's not a zombie, it's me, as far as I'm concerned, in a zombie body. (I assume that most of my memories and my personality is preserved between after reanimation.)

Comment author: Capla 26 December 2014 02:36:32AM 0 points [-]

Oh! You mean a zombie-zombie, not a p-zombie.

Hah!

Comment author: shminux 26 December 2014 03:04:55AM 0 points [-]

I don't know what would constitute a p-zombie, in any context. I was just using the terminology of the comment I replied to, Presumably calling the hypothetical entity which inherits my identity a zombie.

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