From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Wed Nov 06 2002 - 05:13:55 MST
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, gts wrote:
> Yes for a perfect copy, but I was referring specifically to the
> comparison between SHRDLU program and a living person. Do you believe
> you could be destroyed and simultaneously uploaded into a SHRDLU-like
> program and feel that you had survived death? I'm trying to understand
> how that can happen, if it can happen. (I take nothing for granted. :-)
I was trying to illustrate this using SHRDLU as a model. Once we can
understand identity and survival of a running program, we can tackle
uploads, and meat people, and their conversion.
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