[UPLOADING] Is the original alive?

Eugene Leitl (eugene@liposome.genebee.msu.su)
Wed, 15 Jul 1998 17:10:05 +0400 (MSD)

Harvey Newstrom writes:
> Some people claim that killing the original biological copy is not
> murder and does not result in death as long as an identical uploaded
> copy exists.

GargargarGAR! I would assume even a few 100 ms of realtime neurodynamics would result in statespace trajectories of clones' diverging sufficiently to classify termination of a single clone as "murder". Of course I'm a purist, so sue me.

> If destroying the moving, thinking body is not murder or death, are

If destroying the emulation of a moving, thinking body is not murder or death, are

> people claiming that this person is not alive? If it is alive, how can

people claiming that this upload is not alife?

> this life be terminated without calling it murder and death? If it is
> not alive, when did it used to be alived, when exactly did it cease to
> be alive, and by what definition?

And just what happens if we apply the inapplicable?

'gene