From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 20:16:31 MST
Lee Corbin wrote:
> gts writes
>
>> Jef Allbright wrote:
>>
>>> Actually, I thought I said very clearly that I generally
>>> agree with Lee's reasoning on this up to his "level 6",
>>> but beyond that point, I think it is more useful to consider
>>> multiple copies more like special twin siblings than
>>> as effectively the same person.
>>
>> Well then we are still in agreement and there is no need to
>> hash out the details. Sorry I even bothered you about it.
>> I thought you had changed your position but apparently I
>> was only confused by your diplomacy. :)
>
> Zounds! gts agrees to level six??? This is rather amazing.
Sorry I should not have quoted Jef's entire paragraph. I was referring
to my agreement with the last clause in which he disagrees with your
level 7. Jef wrote: "I think it is more useful to consider multiple
copies more like special twin siblings than as effectively the same
person."
That is the issue that has been dividing you and me, Lee, and on that
issue Jef and I and Eugene all seem to agree.
> Level five is equivalent to surrendering some recent
> memories for suitable reward.
I think it's equivalent to sacrificing my life so that a close sibling
might live on to enjoy the reward.
You have never explained the mysterious mechanism by which my present
sense of self should be transferred upon my death into the old self of
mine that is to be restored from my past backup. What kind of magic is
that? It reminds me of "familiars" (cats that are said to embody the
spirits of people upon their death.)
Furthermore, even if you could find a way to explain that witchcraft,
you nevertheless acknowledged that if I had a personality change since
my last backup (e.g., a religious conversion) then my restored backup
would not be me. You then tried to dismiss smaller personality changes
as irrelevant, but such judgments are purely arbitrary.
-gts
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