Re: Immortality

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Dec 07 2000 - 15:43:17 MST


John Clark wrote:
>
> Let's cut to the chase, there is one way and one way only that could be true,
> if the holly rollers turned out to be right and the human soul exists. I consider
> the likelihood of that to be too low to worry about

If the human soul exists, it would fail to be copied and the two versions
would diverge. In neither case do we wind up with a zombie problem.

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence



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