From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 19 2002 - 13:18:09 MST
gts wrote:
> Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>
> re: Hugh Hefner
>
> Your argument here amounts to saying that it's okay to pretend to be
> someone you are not, provided that you don't step on anyone's toes in
> the process. No one disagrees with that, Rafal. However there is a
> difference between being someone and pretending to be someone.
> Identity is not a matter of taste. I cannot become Hugh Hefner,
> regardless of how I might perceive myself.
### If you buy Mr. Hefner's memories and other data structures, and change
your brain sufficiently to resemble Mr Hefner as much as he resembles his
yesterday's recording, you would become Hugh Hefner, both subjectively and
in a manner verifiable to a judge. If Mr. Hefner, perhaps in need of funds,
agrees to such a transaction, perhaps first accepting some of your memories
and effectively merging the two of you, this would be a consensual agreement
and it would have to be recognized by the legal system.
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>
> re: the 911 call
>
>> ### This is a good one :-)
>
> Glad you liked it. :)
>
>> The 911 call would then be: "Officer, this is gts,
>> SSN#312432-48 through 57,
>
> Whoa, stop right there. If we have different social security numbers
> then we are different people even before the crime. Not only would my
> copies and I have different non-nominal identities (as I've been
> arguing) but we would also have different nominal identities. A social
> security number is like a name. We might just as well call them bob
> and frank and john, e.g.,
### It's one SSN with suffixes for the carrier bodies. If they are
sufficiently similar and agree that they are one person, the judge should
accept it.
>
> "Officer, this is gts, a person closely associated with three other
> persons named bob and frank and john. The four of us all stem from the
> same root person. Last night john broke into my house..." etc
>
### This is another possible approach - if your copies do not feel you are
the same person, you should feel free to act accordingly (as in announcing
the Splintering, and denying access to property).
Rafal
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