From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 00:46:23 MST
Jef Allbright wrote:
> For the record, I agree with Lee's logic up to Level 7, but I
> have also stated that in general it would be useful to treat
> these separate instances of me as separate persons (with a very
> special relationship) as they diverge.
This is my position also. It makes no sense to me, outside of communism,
to treat separate people as me, even if they share the same root person
as me. Each of them is his own person with his own free-will.
> I'm saying the same thing Rafal said earlier with his SSN#
> xxxxxx-nn comments. By any logical reasoning or physical test,
> they would certainly be me, and if one of me were to be killed, I
> would lose some experiences, but I would still exist as multiple
> entities.
I'm sorry but if you were killed then you cannot still be alive.
-gts
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