From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Mon Jun 11 2001 - 22:32:35 MDT
Lee Corbin <lcorbin@ricochet.net> Wrote:
>Would you use the teleporter system if there was
>an overlap of two seconds?
Two seconds is at the outside limit of what I'd tolerate and
I'd be much happier with one.
> You may remember my example of the frozen duplicate with $10,000,000
> in a briefcase on top the frozen slab of ice. He was created a few
> minutes ago. Do you (a) choose that he (and the money) be disintegrated,
> or (b) that you be disintegrated and he gets to deposit the money?
Easy choice for me, I pick a. Of course there is no right or wrong answer
to this, it's a matter of taste.
> suppose you made a backup last week.
> Now you see that your space capsule is doomed to re-entry burn-up.
> You're "very unhappy"?
Yes, I hate it when that happens.
>I claim that this is precisely like losing all the memories that you've made
>this week.
Not precisely because as my ship burns up I'd be consciously aware of having a
last thought and having a last thought is how I define death.
>This comparitively small amount of amnesia isn't a threat to your life in any way.
>Right?
It's my turn to ask a question: Suppose you slowly burn to death in your ship,
the memories of that pain will be destroyed once your brain is fully carbonized
so are you saying the pain should not upset you?
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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