From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2002 - 09:37:18 MDT
"Damien Broderick" <d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au> Wrote:
>For *me*, that damned duck might as well be somebody's mother. Sure isn't
>*me*, I'm over here on the scanning stage, so take your disintegrator
>raygun away from my head, it gives *me* no comfort that my emulation
>is out there.
The problem is that the emulations are no longer identical in fact they are
no longer even very close. One is undergoing a traumatic experience knowing
his head is about to be blown off and the other is not. As long as the
emulations are identical there is no way anybody could tell the difference
and there is no way you could tell if it had already happened to you. You
might have been "killed" and replaced with a duplicate last night, but who
cares? I figure if nobody, not even you, can tell the difference then there
is no difference.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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