On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 01:50:47PM -0700, Dennis Ochei wrote: > indeed. The memory criterion reveals itself to be problematic the moment > you consider partial transfers. If you transfer all my memories, we've > decided, per the criterion, that I would wake up at the destination. But > what if you transferred all but one memory? 75%? 50%? Via the sorites > paradox, you'd have to conclude that a null transfer still allows you to > wake up in the new body. Or you could conclude there is some critical > percentage where you go from not arriving to arriving in the new body, > which is absurd.
Why is this absurd? What if all your memories are interlinked into some sort of network, and if you leave out enough memories, a percolation threshold is crossed, and your identity falls apart? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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.
