My suspicion is that "personal identity" is a human concept that is evolved mainly to enforce social norms, and that it only works until technologies like duplication machines or mind uploading are created. To illustrate this, I propose a dilemma:
Let's assume I murder someone and then get scanned in Brussels, and reconstructed in Washington. Who should go to jail? What if I am destroyed in Brussels and reconstructed in Washington and Moscow? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
