From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Nov 04 2002 - 08:43:34 MST
Lee Corbin wrote:
>> You did not answer my question.
> Sorry, I thought that it was rhetorical.
It wasn't rhetorical. It was another thought experiment designed to
expose the logical flaw in in your level 5 argument. You appear to be
evading the question, so here it is again, in more exact terms:
Let us say I am a US Senator. After conversations with people whose
advice I value, I change my position with respect to an important
political question after my last backup. Let us say it is the question
of whether to approve Bush's impending use of force against Iraq. I then
die
and my back-up is restored. My backup holds to my previous position and
does not consult with the same people I did before my death. He will
vote one way, whereas I would vote the other way had I not died.
If my backup is me then his vote on the issue will be valid. If he is
not me then his vote will be invalid. (Assume for a moment that the
Senate is otherwise equally divided on the question and that my vote is
the swing vote, and assume also that Bush will abide by the will of the
Senate.)
Who decides if my backup is the same person I was when I died? And based
on what criteria is that decision made?
Obviously *I* (the dead guy) would consider my backup's vote to be
invalid, but unfortunately I am now dead. So who decides, Lee?
> Listen, we keep going around and around on this.
Please just answer the question. The future of the world hangs on the
question of whether my backup is really me.
-gts
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