--- Stathis Papaioannou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29/06/07, Tom McCabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I think > > it works better to look at it from the perspective > of > > the guy doing the upload rather than the guy being > > uploaded. If you magically inserted yourself into > the > > brain of a copy at random, then you're right- > you'd > > have an equal chance of waking up in A or B. > > But that's the whole idea... of course from an > objective point of view > what you are saying is right, but from a subjective > point of view it's > different.
>From *which* subjective point of view? > > But to > > say "you" have an equal chance of waking up in A > or B > > is nonsensical, because "you" as a singular person > > doesn't exist anymore. You can only talk about > "you" > > when referring to events before the copying - if > you > > try to refer to "you" to describe what happens > after > > the copying, your brain will barf as there are > 1024 > > possible references for the word. > > You could equally well say that it is nonsensical to > assert that "you" > will be alive in a few months time because most of > the matter in the > brain of the person who identifies as you will be > different by then. Along the world line, at every point, there is a hunk of matter you can point to unambiguously as "you". That doesn't apply here. > The point is, how is the illusion of a single person > persisting > through time perpetuated? It's not an illusion, any more than the Mississippi River is an illusion. > -- > Stathis Papaioannou - Tom > ----- > This list is sponsored by AGIRI: > http://www.agiri.org/email > To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: > http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&; > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=7d7fb4d8
