From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Mon Jun 11 2001 - 09:00:44 MDT
>>ME:
>>if the memories were merged you would have the experience of
> >living several lives in parallel. Might be fun.
J. Goard <wyattoil@foothill.net> Wrote:
> A non sequitor.
How so?
>What if you don't expect them to ever be merged in any significant way?
Then obviously they would remain separate people. But it doesn't matter
what I expect to happen, the only important thing is what happens.
>Would you expect to experience being each of them, at the same time?
Experience is memory so If their memories were later merged then yes, I would
have lives in parallel. If not merged then of course no.
> If something is a duplicate of me, then it doesn't have an awareness extending
> across several bodies, because I don't have such a thing,
Why to you imagine I disagree with that? The merged being would not be a
duplicate of me either, but it would be interesting.
>If you believe that by duplicating a body, a single awareness will then
>coexist across the multiple bodies[...]
I don't.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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