From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Mon Jun 04 2001 - 09:37:24 MDT
Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
> If you've got a single CNS mirroring input to two instances of
> identical flesh puppets in same environment (or good renderings
> thereof), or two synched brains (trajectores coupled with a
> restoring harmonic potential) you've got one person. In other
> cases, you've got two (n) persons.
Agreed. I think this points out one important point. To make the copy and
the original be "one" person, simply copying every atom exactly is not
enough. You need to maintain a neural connection between the two brains.
As soon as this connection is severed, they are two people.
> > Without neural connections between the two brains, I don't see
> how the two
> > sensory input stream or the two command/control streams will be
> delivered to
> > the same brain. It seems obvious that they are delivered to separate
>
> Right, it's impossible.
I think you and I agree on this point. Other people would claim that even
without this link, the two bodies/brains/minds should still be counted as
"one" person.
> > Ignoring the point about how similar these copies are, what are
> the answers
> > to the above questions?
>
> Did I answer them?
Perfectly, and it now appears that we are in exact agreement about this.
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