On 10/5/2015 6:03 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On 6 Oct 2015, at 9:54 AM, Brent Meeker <meeke...@verizon.net
<mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote:
Is the question really about "Can we achieve immortality by copying to
different substrates?" As Bruce points out we would only preserve our
"self" exactly up to the last copy event, since we would have diverged
from there. It's like making a backup on your computer, it doesn't
mean that nothing's lost when it crashes.
Losing the part after the backup is equivalent to developing amnesia
for this period.
Not strictly equivalent. One might have scars, or even fewer limbs.
Mind isn't everything.
Brent
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