From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 20:07:12 MST
Lee Corbin wrote:
> gts writes
>
>> Jef Allbright wrote:
>>
>>> Actually, I thought I said very clearly that I generally
>>> agree with Lee's reasoning on this up to his "level 6",
>>> but beyond that point, I think it is more useful to consider
>>> multiple copies more like special twin siblings than
>>> as effectively the same person.
>>
>> Well then we are still in agreement and there is no need to
>> hash out the details. Sorry I even bothered you about it.
>> I thought you had changed your position but apparently I
>> was only confused by your diplomacy. :)
>
> Zounds! gts agrees to level six??? This is rather amazing.
Sorry I should not have quoted Jef's entire paragraph. I was referring
to my agreement with the last clause in which he disagrees with your
level 7. Jef wrote: "I think it is more useful to consider multiple
copies more like special twin siblings than as effectively the same
person."
That is the issue that has been dividing you and me, Lee, and on that
issue Jef and I and Eugene all seem to agree.
> Level five is equivalent to surrendering some recent
> memories for suitable reward.
I think it's equivalent to dying with the sole satisfaction that a close
sibling will live on and enjoy the reward for which I have sacrificed my
life.
You have never explained the mysterious mechanism by which my sense of
self should be transferred upon my death into the old self of mine that
is to be restored from my past backup. What kind of magic is that? It
reminds me of "familiars" (cats that are said to adopt the personalities
of people upon their death.)
Furthermore, even if you could find a way to explain that witchcraft,
you acknowledged that if I had a personality change since my last backup
(e.g., a religious conversion) that the restored self would not be me.
You then tried to dismiss smaller personality changes as irrelevant, but
such judgments are purely arbitrary.
-gts
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