Virginia
Code Sec. 64.2-450 Probate of copy of will proved outside the
Commonwealth; authenticated copy When a will relative to an estate
within the Commonwealth has been proved in another jurisdiction, an
authenticated copy of the will and the certificate of probate of the
will may be offered for probate in the Commonwealth, and there shall be a
rebuttable presumption that the will was duly executed and admitted to
probate as a will of personal estate in the jurisdiction of the
testator's domicile and the circuit court, or the clerk of such court,
where it is offered shall admit such copy to probate as a will of
personal estate in the Commonwealth. If such copy indicates that the
will was admitted to probate in a court of another jurisdiction and was
so executed as to be a valid will of real estate in the Commonwealth by
the law of the Commonwealth, such copy may be admitted to probate as a
will of real estate. An authenticated copy of any will which has been
self-proved under the laws of another state shall, when offered with its
authenticated certificate of probate, be admitted to probate as a will
of personal estate and real estate.
In
his book This Is It: and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience
(1958) Alan Watts discusses the experience of “cosmic consciousness”
I
have had that experience of cosmic consciousness on more than one
occasion, and indeed, I believe I can intellectualized it so that
anyone can have that experience by just adopting the right perspective.
And
perhaps the most incredible of all the mysteries of the universe is the
fact that a semi-intelligent ape-man whose brain is made of living
tissue, can have a conscious experience of himself and of a local piece
of the universe as if his mind can extend out of his skull and make
direct contact with the world around him.
The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common. – Jonathan Edwards
And the next step is downloading our minds into computers.
If
we are basically the pattern of our consciousness, then it seems the
new person is the same as the original. If our essence is our body, then
the person doesn’t survive.