--- Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 01:08:02PM -0700, Matt Mahoney wrote: > > > Thus, the fallacy of immortality through uploading is exposed. A copy of > you > > is not you. > > No. As long there's no fork all systems are identical. There's no > measurement which allows you to tell one discrete synchronized system > from another. Space is not labeled. The spray paint of the case is > not relevant.</brokenrecord>
So if you are uploaded, or lets say you step into a duplicating machine that makes an exact copy of you, atom for atom, then you will shoot yourself as soon as you step out and you won't die, as long as you do it right now before you and the copy diverge? Or suppose you know that there are an infinite number of all possible universes, so that at each point in time there are universes with indistinguishable pasts but all possible futures. So you know that if you shoot yourself then there is another universe where you don't. Would you then shoot yourself? The problem with these arguments is not in the logic. It is that all animals fear death, because those that didn't did not pass on their DNA. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- 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=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
