Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > 2009/2/28 Günther Greindl <guenther.grei...@gmail.com>: > > >> The issue that we are very reluctant to die if our backup is ten years >> old but need not worry so much if we backed up one hour ago is simply >> the heuristic that in one hour we don't change so much, but in ten years >> we often change so much that we indeed become a very _different_ person. >> >> So, what counts is change, not "objective" time. >> >> What we _are_ is I think more about what we (can) _become_, rather than >> a single snapshot at time t_0. And if this becoming is lost, that is the >> true tragedy. >> > > The problem with this explanation is that fear of death is only > partly, if at all, attenuated by rational considerations.
Well mine is pretty attenuated - but whether it was strictly rational considerations or just getting older I couldn't say. > I could > probably make my hour old backup do anything I want by holding a gun > to his head. > But would you shoot him? ;-) Brent Indeed, I would personally find the idea of clones of myself that I could run into quite disturbing, and the more like me they were, the worse it would be. --- Stathis Papaioannou --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---