From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@ricochet.net)
Date: Thu May 31 2001 - 19:49:43 MDT
Emlyn speaks up for the non-materialists on this list:
>On the other hand, a non-materialist would have a non-materialist copy on
>the pit lip. Neither of them would believe they were the same person as each
>other, and both would behave accordingly. Likely they'd have a bit of
>empathy for each other, actually (not that the materialists wouldn't, of
>course).
>
>Just out of interest, if that were me in the copy pit, I'd press the button
>enough times that there were enough duplicates at the top of the pit that
>they could get me out, by a chain of humans dangling over the edge, if
>nothing else. Then we'd all wander back to civilisation together and start
>the Great Society of Emlyns.
Maybe this is fine for the non-materialists, and maybe not. More later.
Lee
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