From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Fri Jun 01 2001 - 15:13:07 MDT
> But Harvy, with this you are still making the faulty assumption that
> you are still subjectively trapped inside your skull as a single
> isolated subjective "person". When two brains are subjective shared
> like this, it will not simply be two different people sharing the same
> subjective experience, you will be the same consciousness supper
> beeing - spread across multiple joined platforms, bodies and brains.
Evidence, please? Just because they look alike and have similar or exact
structures does not mean that thoughts from one brain are telepathically
appearing in the other brain. If they are not physically connected or have
a wireless network link between them, they are not connected. How can data
transfer from one to the other? As soon as the copy is completed and the
link disconnected, they will instantly diverge and start acting like
different people with identical bodies and personalities. If you whisper a
question in one's ear, the other will not answer.
> Each of the consciously connected bodies (In your case many of them
> drastically different than each other?) will be more like appendages
> to the supper conscious you than an isolated copy of some other
> isolated part of you. These will be appendages that you will freely
> shed and replace at will while maintaining one supper consciousness
> that is aware of all of them as they are shed and replaced with many
> more improved ones. You will take everything, the personality, the
> memory, what they were subjectively like... and absorb it into your
> supper consciousness before discarding one of these appendages. You
> will then replace that appendage with several more much improved
> versions, back-load these personalities and memories in their entirety
> back into them and turn them loose to grow and fill their new improved
> expanded appendage or sub parts of you. The single conscious stream
> that is you will be preserved far better in such a growing, shared
> supper beeing, as it grows, improves, moves, and shares itself with
> others, than the sleeping, forgetful, often unconscious you so
> tenuously isolated within your mortal skull. Don't you think?
No, I don't think. I would love to see this happen, but I need more details
than "a miracle occurs...."
I want both the original and copy to survive the procedure. Then I want to
be able to ask them if they want to kill the original. The copy might say,
"Sure, go ahead, I've been teleported over here." But the original will
say, "No way, nothing happened. I'm still in my old body. I don't know who
is in that new body over there."
-- Harvey Newstrom <http://HarveyNewstrom.com> <http://Newstaff.com>
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