From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Nov 13 2002 - 09:05:14 MST
Lee Corbin wrote:
> Are you sure that it doesn't matter to you which, if
> either, got to keep the original atoms?
Yes I'm sure. To make this clear we can assume the bifurcation chamber
discards the original's atoms and makes two exact copies of the original
from fresh atoms.
> Now, when you wrote
>
> > Both Person-A and Person-B would experience a continuation
> > of self and rightly believe himself to be a continuation
> > of the original Person.
>
> do you see Person-B having any less claim than person A
> to be the continuation of the original person?
No. Their claims are equal. They both remember walking into and out of
the chamber.
However if we follow the stream of consciousness of the original as he
enters and leaves the chamber, we find that he experiences himself to
walk out of one door, not two. The exit door experienced by the original
would be selected randomly as per QM, and cannot be predicted in
advance.
-gts
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