On Jun 29, 2007, at 6:54 PM, Matt Mahoney wrote:
--- Randall Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jun 28, 2007, at 7:51 PM, Matt Mahoney wrote:
--- Stathis Papaioannou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How does this answer questions like, if I am destructively
teleported
to two different location
--- Randall Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Jun 28, 2007, at 7:51 PM, Matt Mahoney wrote:
> > --- Stathis Papaioannou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> How does this answer questions like, if I am destructively teleported
> >> to two different locations, what can I expect to experience?
Stathis:
> Although you make an exception when the copying takes place gradually
> inside your own head, switching atoms in your brain for new ones
> obtained from environmental raw materials, and excreting the original
> atoms.
There is no exception because the two cases are not equivalent whe
Stathis:
> Although you make an exception when the copying takes place gradually
> inside your own head, switching atoms in your brain for new ones
> obtained from environmental raw materials, and excreting the original
> atoms.
There is no exception because the two cases are not equivalent whe
On 29/06/07, Heartland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Stathis:
> Although you make an exception when the copying takes place gradually
> inside your own head, switching atoms in your brain for new ones
> obtained from environmental raw materials, and excreting the original
> atoms.
There is no exce
On 29/06/07, Heartland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The contradiction exists only in the minds of those who can't see or are unable
to
accept that "consciousness" doesn't transfer to a copy regardless of anything
else. Once this is clear, the imaginary paradox disappears. This paradox has
alw
On 29/06/07, Heartland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The contradiction exists only in the minds of those who can't see or are unable
to
accept that "consciousness" doesn't transfer to a copy regardless of anything
else. Once this is clear, the imaginary paradox disappears. This paradox has
alway
I'm going to let the zombie thread die.
- Tom
--- Stathis Papaioannou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 29/06/07, Tom McCabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > But when you talk about "yourself", you mean the
> > "yourself" of the copy, not the "yourself" of the
> > original person. While all th
On 29/06/07, Tom McCabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But when you talk about "yourself", you mean the
"yourself" of the copy, not the "yourself" of the
original person. While all the copied selves can only
exist in one body, the original self can exist in more
than one body. You can pull this off
