From: Louis Newstrom (louisnews@comcast.net)
Date: Thu Jun 13 2002 - 06:59:44 MDT
From: "John K Clark" <jonkc@att.net>
>
> Your reference frame is irrelevant and so is any objective time frame, the
> only important thing is the subjective time of the computational being. If
> everything is *exactly* the same as you say then the subjective time is
the
> same too, thus regardless of how many time you rerun the torture session
> or the place it's done it only happened one time subjectively.
>
I totally disagree. You are making the argument that "if you don't know it
doesn't count". Does that mean that if we destroy all evidence of WWII then
it's not a tragedy? No! It only means people won't know about it.
The fact that there are two bodies suffering, is worse than one body
suffering. The fact that one doesn't know about the other is irrelavent.
Replace two "identical" bodies with two obviously different bodies. You
still can make the claim that one is unaware of the other. But I doubt you
would continue to say it isn't worse.
It seems that you are somehow counting the two bodies as "one" because they
are "identical". I still don't see your rational. Any computer programmer
can tell you that two runs of the same thread on a computer instead of one
IS different, and IS significant! (Unless you program VERY carefully, it
usually causes a crash because the two programs conflict because they both
want to use the same resources...)
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