From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Sat Apr 05 2003 - 12:03:31 MST
Robert J. Bradbury wrote,
> It is the information
> content (as a description of a pattern of atoms) that is valuable.
>
> It is a very different world and I don't think most people are
> anywhere near ready to deal with it (emotionally).
>
This is where it gets strange. Each copy can only access their own body,
their own thoughts and their own experiences. What happens to one copy may
not happen to the other copy. As such, they each have a different
point-of-view. Making a duplicate copy does not change the point-of-view of
the original. It creates a new point-of-view. The original point-of-view
still grow old and dies or is destroyed in the destructive copy scenario.
That point-of-view never is modified to achieve immortality. It is only the
newly created point-of-view that experiences immortality. Strangely, this
new point-of-view has never experienced being mortal. It may "remember"
being mortal in that we have programmed it with a copy of all the memories
from the original, but it never actually experienced them. These two
points-of-view are different/separate people. One is mortal and is never
saved. One is immortal and was never in danger. My viewpoint is that these
are two separate people who are extremely-identical twins. They are not the
same person, but two very similar people.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP, IAM, GSEC <www.HarveyNewstrom.com>
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