> John Mikes wrote: >> Brent: >> who is making that 'backup' or 'replica' of you? and why?
It is only a thought experiment to make clear what we care about regarding personal identity. And if computationalism is true, this thought experiment will be practically quite relevant in the near(?) future (as in mind uploading etc) (see Bostrom and Sandberg; Whole Brain emulation roadmap http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/Reports/2008-3.pdf) And as regards COMP, the duplications occur all the time. Cheers, Günther --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
