From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed May 30 2001 - 05:07:09 MDT
hal@finney.org wrote:
>
> The thing I like to ask is, once you're uploaded (or a copy of you is),
> would you (supposing you find yourself as the upload) allow your program
> to be copied to another computer?
Great question! As every cell of your body is replaced are you
less you? As you forget what it was to be the you of yesteryear
to greater or lesser extent have you become not-you? If your
brain cells were replaced one at a time with artificial, higher
capacity equivalents - at what poiint would you be not you?
> That would presumably be just as much
> a discontinuity as uploading yourself. Is there a chance that your "self"
> only continues while your program is running on a single computer?
Not meaningfully, perhaps semantically.
> Does it
> make sense to say that you would die if your program was stopped? (What
> about the time between clock ticks?)
What about the time between chronons? What makes you think you
are continuous? It isn't necesarily true continuity.
- samantha
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