From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Thu May 31 2001 - 15:31:01 MDT
e've forked.
> >
> > I don't get it. This topic is so dead, it's not even smelling
> > anymore.
>
> I agree with you. And yet, people keep showing up on the list insisting
> that a copy is an acceptable way to upload. This is an FAQ, but we do not
> have consensus on the answer. You and I agree the answer is obviously one
> way, but a bunch of other people insist that the answer is
> obviously another
> way.
We don't know enough to resolve this issue.
What about all the identical twin studies showing low-level telepathy
between identical twins? Does anyone here believe them? I'm not a true
believer by any means, but I'd give them a >5% chance of being true.
And if identical twins' minds are somehow bound together (quantum resonance?
morphic resonance? trans-substantial nonlinear sub-quark-level voodoo?),
then wouldn't two copies' minds be even more closely bound together?
Wouldn't they perhaps *feel* each other at first ... and then feel each
other drift away... decorrelate...
If you could feel part of yourself in the mind of your copy, then maybe you
wouldn't mind physically dying as much as you would *without* that feeling.
Never having been there, how can we know??
To me, the answer to this question (the psychological nature of uploading
via copying) is not obvious one way or another.
- Ben
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