From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Tue Nov 12 2002 - 22:26:30 MST
"Rafal Smigrodzki" <rms2g@virginia.edu>
> If the copies inherit gts's definition, then the definition will be of
> decisive importance here.
No they will not be. There is no reason to think gts would even know a copy
was made much less that he was the copy, and even if you could somehow prove
to him that it's true what would he conclude, that he's dead? Obviously not.
If he has the ability to ask the question of himself and remembers quite
well being gts then he's not dead and you will never convince him that he is
regardless of the words in his dictionary. Definitions are utterly
unimportant, examples are not. Survival is that thing that to me seems the
same between yesterday and today; to gts copy or original something seems
the same to him so he must have survived.
> At least one of the gts's will disagree about being identical to the
> others (ask gts, he'll confirm it). Opinions of his copies will be
> discordant.
After a few seconds yes. So what?
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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