From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Wed Nov 05 1997 - 10:54:38 MST
"Clemens Pittino" <pittino@magnet.at> writes:
> If you digitize your brain, you can copy it exactly. Who am I, if I would
> let run my mind on 2 hosts ?
Depends on your philosophy. It doesn't seem to be an
observer-independent answer.
One way of dealing with this is my identity calculus, see
http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Cultural/Philosophy/identity.html
Most likely both host-mind systems would consider themselves to be you.
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