Re: uploading and the survival hang-up

From: J. Goard (wyattoil@foothill.net)
Date: Fri Jun 01 2001 - 17:39:00 MDT


At 04:21 PM 6/1/01 -0600, Brent Allsop wrote:

> I'm talking about two brains that do have a vey high bandwidth
>connection. On that allows almost every neuron in on brain to
>comunicate with every neuron in the other... pluss some supper brain
>stuff that enable the supper consciousness to be aware of everything
>at the same time.

While that subject is quite interesting in its own right, it doesn't have
any bearing on the replication issue within the philosophy of self, because
each of the "halves" is made substantially different by the process, i.e.
they have not simply been replicated, and indeed we have no reason to think
they constitute two people rather than one person with two bodies. The
conceptual crisis with replication is quite another thing.

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