From: hidden (hidden@mosquitonet.com)
Date: Sun Nov 22 1998 - 15:00:52 MST
Identical in parallel
I have a thought experiment along theses lines which I would Like input on
If I appear in a room with an identical of me in a perfectly symmetrical room in a
perfectly symmetrical situation, what can I do to label myself as different? i.e. how
long will I stay in parallel when are minds are no longer connected as one.
>John Clark wrote:
>If there were 10 identical copies of me running in parallel and I had a machine
>that would pick one copy at random to survive and at the same instant destroy
>the other 9 copies then I wouldn't mind pushing the button. The other 9 John
>Clarks would of course have exactly the same opinion.
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