On Tuesday, May 5, 2015, spudboy100 via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Stathis, probably, Steinhart would agree with you regarding revision, for > me, with the loss of contiguous identity, the succeeding person is merely a > clone, as if you could magically clone a person in some of the fantasy > films, or even like a clone generated by the Everett-De Witt-Wheeler > interpretation of quantum mechanics. It's an copy, but a different person. > Now, if either of these processes possessed psychological continuity of the > individual, then initially at least, we'd have identical iterations of the > same, identical, persons. But this is different than Revision (an earlier > proposal). My reading of "revision" from the extract is that you would be a copy with improvements, so there would be psychological continuity. > What seems to be a better, more satisfying theory, is Steinhart's > Promotion Theory, which entails higher intelligences, especially God (The > operating system and hypercomputer of this universe), performing moves, via > pipelines, to a higher universe, in essence, Promotion of processes like > us. Steinhart is sort of a polytheist, and see's God or God's evolving, > Dawkin's - style from a very, very, simple universe. So the whole > personality-memory, gets promoted to a different universe. At that point > the person is in an improved circumstance, and then because of new > experiences, begins to diverge from his or her, old self. We do this now. > it's called life. > > Back to identity, Steinhart also includes Uploading and Teleportation as > different means to the same destination to VR environments. Steinhart, > calls VR environments, terrariums. And, the Engineers can move, either > through Promotion, Uploading, or Teleportation to multiple environments, > with multiple copies of You to each new space. So Stathis 1, goes to Middle > Earth, 2 goes to Star Trekville, 3 goes to The New Republic, 4, goes to the > Age of the Greek Gods, 5, etc... This, collection of You's that diverge to > each environment, Steinhart calls a Span. > > What's the solution to so many versions of us?? Eventually, it could be > resolved by Tipler's Omega Point (an idea) in the far, far, future. Copies > exist via MWI, so why not a few million more added to the pot? Steinhart > definitely, *does not endorse this fix*, but I am tweaking his work to > suit myself and emotions. > -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
