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Immortality - Indirectly

Did you know that if you're a completely average person, in personality traits, memory, and intellegence, there are about 145,000 people just like you on planet earth, or about 13,000 here in the USA . Identical!! Like a twin, and even more. This sounds like a lot, but it is really quite a small proportion, about 36 in one million. Here we look at the numbers - some very tiny and some astronomically big. Preamble – Do you want to live forever?  You will, but perhaps not in the way you think – or want. In a previous report, The Immortality Paradox,  ( http://used-ideas.blogspot.com/2012/06/immortality-paradox.html ) it was demonstrated from a human viewpoint, that immortality is rather problematic simply from mental capacities consideration.  But there is another way.  (Note, we leave of religious, deist, theist, considerations that identify an immortal soul, as they take us far afield of our point here.)     Have you ever said something like this. “You know that Karen is just li