From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Thu Dec 07 2000 - 21:11:05 MST
"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
>
> John Clark wrote:
> >
> > Let's cut to the chase, there is one way and one way only that could be true,
> > if the holly rollers turned out to be right and the human soul exists. I consider
> > the likelihood of that to be too low to worry about
>
> If the human soul exists, it would fail to be copied and the two versions
> would diverge. In neither case do we wind up with a zombie problem.
Or, while we are playing with hypotheticals, it might like the copy
better than the original or split in two or call some etheric buddy to
take up residence. whatever...
- samantha
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