Re: Duplicates are Selves

From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Sun Apr 06 2003 - 09:29:15 MDT

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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Hal Finney" <hal@finney.org>
    >
    > I understand the pragmatic concern that the desire to get from one place
    > to another by a teleportation machine would be thwarted for the copy
    > that gets left behind. You have to consider whether there wouldn't be
    > something useful that an extra copy of yourself could accomplish.
    >

    ### In other words, suicide is a way of leaving places you don't want to be
    in, copying might be a way of reaching places you want to reach, and a
    combination of the two achieves both objectives.

    Rafal

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