From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Jun 27 2003 - 00:57:14 MDT
At 10:58 PM 6/26/03 -0700, Samantha Atkins wrote:
>So the newly resurrected/revitalized/thawed/translated X-whatever probably
>would not choose to worry excessively about it? I presume you are saying
>all the worry would be on the part of the original.
Unless the original had adopted (or been brainwashed into from childhood)
an ideology/belief system that asserted the continuation of identity via
physically discontinuous upload.
Oh no, I've been sucked into one of the Threads of Doom.
>I will be perfectly
>content if something very much like me survives the process whether you may
>agree it is "me" or not.
Most people would (after some initial icky moments), in my view, because
it's a non-transitive situation. But the question to me, in practical
terms, might be posed this way:
Would you spend $100,000 (or whatever it costs) to bring about this
discontinuous xoxing? It's like the choice of cryonics, but more moot. If
you're dying anyway, you can't take it with you, but wouldn't it be make
you happier to bequeath it to your kids, your extended family, or as a
donation to SIAI, $cientology or the home for disgraced cats?
Iff, of course, *you* don't think you'll survive, but merely be copied--and
bugger what *he* or *she* comes to believe, the self-deluding ninny, after
the operation and your death.
Damien Broderick
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