RE: duck me!

From: gts (gts@optexinc.com)
Date: Tue Oct 22 2002 - 20:06:41 MDT


Lee Corbin wrote:

> Yes, one's duplicate's attributes *do* vary from one's, but
> to a ridiculously small degree.

Even people who differ by "ridiculously small" degrees are different
people, Lee. There is no equivalency between them, which means they are
not "one person in two places at the same time."

Furthermore the degree of difference between the original and his dupe
will graduate from "ridiculously small" to "ridiculously large" with the
passage of time and events.

You never replied to my answer to your cryonic backup argument. I will
repost it here because it is relevant to the question at hand:

Lee Corbin wrote:

> Note that cryonicists often talk about how desirable it would
> be to have a backup. Suppose that in some SF scenario it is
> possible for cryonicists to get a scan made every two weeks.
> Then, if a terrible accident occurred, they could still be
> restored from backups, sans their most recent memories. I
> regard this as survival. Do you?

I replied:

 I would regard it as survival of someone very similar to me, but not
me.
 I am the person who died -- not the person who was frozen two weeks ago
 and later restored.

 To illustrate, I may have experienced some major changes in my
 personality after my last backup. Perhaps as a result of some traumatic
 experience in the last week before I died, I experienced a religious
 conversion and decided with firm resolve to commit my life to the god
 Thor. Would my non-religious backup be a true copy of me, the devoted
 servant of Thor? Hardly. We would be two entirely different people with
 different beliefs, values, hopes and dreams.

How do you answer this?

-gts



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