Re: duck me!

From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 07:57:24 MST


>>Me
>>if a backup thinks he is you then he is you. > >

 "Rafal Smigrodzki" <rms2g@virginia.edu>

> Well, this might get us into difficulties. Let's say somebody obtained
> gts's personality scan data, made two subtly altered backups, gts-copies
> with the subjective feeling of identity with the original gts. Gts would
> not share this feeling.

But the gts at the time the copies were made would share the feeling of
identity with the original. Copy A is gts and copy B is gts but after some
time copy A is not copy B and neither is the gts of an hour after the
duplication because neither remembers being him at that time.

>Could the two copies out-vote him?

Huh?

   John K Clark



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