From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 13:03:22 MST
John Clark wrote:
> >>Me
> >>if a backup thinks he is you then he is you. > >
>
> "Rafal Smigrodzki" <rms2g@virginia.edu>
>
>> Well, this might get us into difficulties. Let's say somebody
>> obtained gts's personality scan data, made two subtly altered
>> backups, gts-copies with the subjective feeling of identity with the
>> original gts. Gts would not share this feeling.
>
> But the gts at the time the copies were made would share the feeling
> of identity with the original. Copy A is gts and copy B is gts but
> after some time copy A is not copy B and neither is the gts of an
> hour after the duplication because neither remembers being him at
> that time.
### Gts defines his identity only in relation to identical copies synched to
the planck time scale. What I was describing was a situation with three
gts-like entities: the "original", continuous in terms of spacetime
trajectory with the gts we email daily, and two copies, which are altered
slightly - instead of insisting on the planck-time identity, they simply say
that anything reasonably gts-like is gts (in other words, the hacker who
made the copies instilled my own views into them). You can see there is a
problem, right? If we as observers wanted to accept the majority opinion of
all gts-like entities (in terms of physical structure, memories, and beliefs
99.9999% similar to each other), the original gts would be outvoted.
Rafal
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