From: Alex Ramonsky (alex@ramonsky.com)
Date: Wed Mar 13 2002 - 02:44:32 MST
[snip]
Well, it seems that you are yourself conflicted. You assume that clones
of yourself will automatically compete with you for resources (and I
don't know what else), but this is assuming that there is a scarcity of
resources to compete for.
You are also assuming that the transhuman individual will be limited to
a physical corporeal existence, which is a bit presumptuous to assume as
a given. When you can fit your conciousness into any old teaspoon of
dirt, dust, or plasma anywhere in the universe, how exactly do you think
you will have a need to 'compete' with duplicates you make of yourself,
especially if those duplicates are light years distant from each other?
. ...does anyone have a lead on the Ukranian twins' story (1969) where a
monozygotic twin killed his brother with the excuse: "He thinks exactly like
I do, so I knew he was plotting to kill me, because I was plotting to kill
him, so I just had to get in first"?
I would have similar problems, not with clones, but certainly with copies of
my mind. I really, really want to get over this one, so anyone with
therapeutic advice on this phobia, help, please!
I know I crack under certain kinds of pressure...therefore so would the copy
..and that could endanger all the copies...the more opf us there are, the
more vulnerable we all are to each other's weaknesses.I need to be convinced
otherwise. Because I want to be uploaded and I suffer from cyberchondria.
...could someone be an extropians' shrink here?
Ramonsky
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