From: Chris Russo (extropy@russo.org)
Date: Sun Dec 10 2000 - 15:36:58 MST
At 15:46 -0500 12/10/00, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>To further expound on this copy-question, try this thought
>experiment resulting in six different copies. I am not trying to
>prove a point here, and don't know what the "right" answer is. I
>just want to see which copy people think is the best continuation of
>themselves.
If it has my thoughts and memories, it's I (2-6). Which piece of
meat or silicon is housing those thoughts and memories is no more of
a question of "Which is I?" than if you evaluated me with and without
a nose job, or with and without $1,000,000 in my bank account.
You seem to think that your scenario invokes questions of identity -
but within my framework, it only invokes questions of preferential
circumstances.
Regards,
Chris Russo
--
"If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought
or deed, I will gladly change. I seek the truth, which never yet
hurt anybody. It is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance
which does harm."
-- Marcus Aurelius, MEDITATIONS, VI, 21
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