RE: Duplicates are Selves

From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Sat Apr 05 2003 - 12:03:31 MST

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    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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