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 locations, what can I expect to experience? That's
what I want to know before I press the button.
You have to ask the question in a form that does not depend on the
existence
of consciousness. The question is what will each of the two copies
claim to
experience?
Of course, we only care what they claim to experience insofar
as it corresponds with what they did experience, since that's
what we're really interested in.
How could you tell the difference?
That's a technical question I don't have any answer
to. Fortunately, for the thought experiment, we need
not solve that; we only need to imagine what we would
remember as the copy in question.
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Randall Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"If we have matter duplicators, will each of us be a sovereign
and possess a hydrogen bomb?" -- Jerry Pournelle
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