From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Fri Nov 08 2002 - 22:32:53 MST
"Rafal Smigrodzki" <rms2g@virginia.edu> Wrote:
> Gts defines his identity only in relation to identical copies
Definitions are not important, the opinion of the original is not important,
the opinion of copies is important if in their opinion they are gts.
>synched to the planck time scale.
The Planck Time scale! 10^-43 sec is about a billion billion billion billion
times too short to be consciously noticed.
>the "original", continuous in terms of spacetime trajectory with the
>gts we email daily
The space-time trajectory of what? The atoms in our bodies were in potatoes
last year, and I don't know where they will be next year and I don't see
what's continuous about that.
>You can see there is a the 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.
Huh? Who cares if observers think it's gts or not, the only important thing
is if the copy thinks he's gts and if they remember being him then they
will. Outvoted?
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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