> At 15:46 -0500 12/10/00, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> >To further expound on this copy-question, try this thought
> >experiment resulting in six different copies. I am not trying to
> >prove a point here, and don't know what the "right" answer is. I
> >just want to see which copy people think is the best continuation of
> >themselves.
>
> If it has my thoughts and memories, it's I (2-6). Which piece of
> meat or silicon is housing those thoughts and memories is no more of
> a question of "Which is I?" than if you evaluated me with and without
> a nose job, or with and without $1,000,000 in my bank account.
>
> You seem to think that your scenario invokes questions of identity -
> but within my framework, it only invokes questions of preferential
> circumstances.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris Russo
>
> --
> "If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought
> or deed, I will gladly change. I seek the truth, which never yet
> hurt anybody. It is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance
> which does harm."
> -- Marcus Aurelius, MEDITATIONS, VI, 21
>
I'm really glad that some people think like this. The initial copy-upload
experiments will need volunteers, and if they are destructive of the
original, I wont be doing it!
Emlyn
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