From: Emlyn (emlyn@one.net.au)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2000 - 02:47:42 MST
OK, lets get this straight.
Chris, you would allow someone to do a copy upload, then kill your physical
(current) body. Is that right?
Emlyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Russo" <extropy@russo.org>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: Immortality
> At 22:28 -0500 12/11/00, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> >I think the key question here is how the two copies are connected.
>
> *sigh* There is no connection. I've seen no one on my side of the
> argument so much as imply that there was one, even a little.
>
> I had typed up several lengthy paragraphs expounding upon why I
> thought that you would construct such a wildly obvious straw man, but
> I realized that it would make no difference. There's a basic
> misunderstanding of positions on both sides of this argument:
>
> To us, the importance of our continued existence is adequately
> represented by any *identical* copy that continues to carry on with
> our thoughts and memories.
>
> To you, the importance of your continued existence is only adequately
> represented by the program looking at the world through the eyes of
> the original you.
>
> Trying to pretend that those core values can somehow be melded or
> argued around has turned out to be a rather fruitless endeavor. Fun
> and thought-provoking, but fruitless in terms of coming to any kind
> of consensus.
>
> 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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