From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sat Jun 28 2003 - 23:56:11 MDT
Hal writes
> I see the debate as between those who agree with Harvey that it is all
> a matter of semantics (and I am one of them), and those who see it as
> much more significant, with an underlying, important factual issue about
> survival that must be resolved. It seems difficult to convincingly
> justify the intuition in either case.
If all the questions are oriented around *action*, then
either you will upload or you will not. Either you will
sacrifice yourself for your duplicate or you will not.
The disagreements are substantive.
I think that people's minds are being changed. But I
also claim that people's beliefs would (and perhaps
will) alter dramatically after they've known a few
duplicates. When every one of their intuitions is
telling them "this really is the same person", the
older view will collapse.
Will collapse, that is, except for those who'll stubbornly
resist the new view forever. "I still think that all you
are zombies", the old guy will say, "all this teleporting
and duplicating and what not". But I predict that the
younger generations will take it in stride.
Lee
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