Re: Does a copy know?

From: YakWaxx@aol.com
Date: Sat Sep 20 1997 - 11:10:36 MDT


John K. Clark wrote:
 
> There is only one way to tell if you were successful in carrying
> on this particular instance of you, if the future YakWaxx looks at the
> present YakWaxx and says "I have his memories, I have his personality,
> no thoughts or emotions were interrupted, I remember being him, yep, that
was
> me", then you have continued.

Would two like beings share the same consciousness? After all they are the
same person. Would I know my copies thoughts? And if not, why not? What
makes us different?

--Wax



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