I have replied to Dr. Marchal, using a scifi writer, Wil McCarthy version of
the future regarding this (Derek Parfit's analysis, not withstanding), and
basically McCarthy concluded that everytime somebody used a teleport machine
they killed themselves. Cloning oneself was frowned upon, and often led to
reunification orders by the government (a monarchy!).
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On 19/07/2016 9:47 pm, spudboy100 via Everything List wrote:
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argument here, is one of fission, plus, identity. But what of
fusion. Let us say Biff, using magical teleportation
technology, clones himself into 2 identical guys called Biff
and Biff zips off to Moscow, Boff decides to shop for fishing
equipment, in Helsinki. After a few hours seeing the sights,
buying some goods, Biff, bought a case of Stoly, Boff, some
fishing gear, both zap back to "Copenhagen," their site of
origin. Once they arrive, they discuss their trips with each
other and agree to re-merge. The transporter is used, and Boff
is absorbed back into Biff. Biff emerges from the transporter,
memories of both places intact, and anticipating a weekend of
fishing and Stoly. This would be fission, then fusion or
re-fusion.
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Parfit has considered such a case:
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<p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family:
'Times'; font-weight: 700">Suppose that the bridge
between my hemispheres is brought under my voluntary
control. This would enable me to disconnect my
hemispheres as easily as if I were blinking. By doing
this I would divide my mind. And we can suppose that
when my mind is divided I can, in each </span><span
style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times';
font-weight: 700; vertical-align: -1.000000pt">half,
</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times';
font-weight: 700">bring about reunion. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family:
'Times'; font-weight: 700">This ability would have
obvious uses. To give an example: I am near the end of a
maths exam, and see two ways of tackling the last
problem. I decide to divide my mind, to work, with each
</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family:
'Times'; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: -1.000000pt">half,
</span><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family:
'Times'; font-weight: 700">at one of two calculations,
and then to reunite my mind and write a fair copy of the
best result. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family:
'Times'; font-weight: 700">What shall </span><span
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font-weight: 700; vertical-align: 1.000000pt">I </span><span
style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'Times';
font-weight: 700">experience?
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<p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family:
'Times'; font-weight: 700">My work is now over. I
am about to reunite my mind. What should I, in
each stream, expect? Simply that I shall suddenly
seem to remember just having thought out two
calculations, in thinking out each of which I was
not aware of thinking out the other. This, I
submit, we can imagine. And if my mind was
divided, these memories are correct. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family:
'Times'; font-weight: 700">In describing this episode, I
assumed that there were two series of thoughts, and that
they were both mine. If my two hands visibly wrote out
two calculations, and if I claimed to remember two
corresponding series of thoughts, this is surely what we
should want to say. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family:
'Times'; font-weight: 700">If it is, then a person's
mental history need not be like a canal, with only one
channel. It could be like a river, with islands, and
with separate streams.
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<p>Parfit appears to be undecided as to what to make of
this, but it might be of some interest to consider
further.
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<p> --- (Derek Parfit, <i>The Philosophical Review</i>,
Vol. 80 (1971) pp. 3-27)
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<p>Bruce
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That's pretty much the multiple drafts model of Daniel Dennett. He
speculates that the brain consists of a lot modules that evolved to
serve different purposes (sight, kinesthetics, language,...) and
they "compete" in deciding actions, including what gets encoded in
the internal narrative we experience as conscious thoughts.
Brent
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