Re: Uploading and Consciousness (was: electronic intelligence and ethics)

From: Joseph Sterlynne (vxs@mailandnews.com)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 19:40:07 MST


>> Joseph Sterlynne
> Mike Lorrey

>> As far as I can tell it seems that the way to feel that your awareness is
>> continuous is to use a replacement method.
>
>At which point its time to start lobbying for the forced abortion of all
>twins.
>ONLY ONE BABY PER BIRTH! A scanned upload is not the original, but a softclone
>of the original. As far as the rest of the world is concerned, it does not
>matter, of course, but to the individual, the rest of the world can go suck
>eggs.

I'm certainly not suggesting that we ban scanning or that people won't wish to
use that method. I'm just saying that if the above is true then scanning
produces two individuals, one of whom is rather disappointed.

If you want to start a chapter of Scanned Parenthood, though, that's your
business.



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