Re: The copy paradox

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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