From: FutureQ (futureq@attbi.com)
Date: Sat Oct 12 2002 - 09:25:36 MDT
Lee Corbin wrote:
> Well, you see, if you agree to be disintegrated now so
> that your perfect xox gets to continue to live in Angola,
> you are agreeing to what is *physically* the same end
> result. In short, unless you believe in the existence
> of some non-material component of *you*, the equivalence
> of the two foregoing operations proves that the death
> of one *xox*---even if he's the one reading this right
> now---is not anything like actual death. One continues
> to live as one's duplicates, because duplicates are self.
>
> Lee
Lee,
Then in this case if I kill all but one last remaining Lee Corbin xox I should
not be tried for murder because so long as one remains I have not caused the
death of the Lee Corbin entity. With this possibility we could have all sorts of
distasteful things occur. How about actors xox's that really get killed so the
special effects in films reach true realism? Xox's could fight wars and nobody
really dies!
James
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