On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 12:34 PM, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 Terren Suydam <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I just open the door of course; and your description was quite >>> incorrect. No person will be killed when that door is opened because the >>> person of John Clark is an adjective not a noun, John Clark is the way >>> matter behaves when it is organized in a Johnclarkian way, and there is >>> still a chunk of matter organized in a Johnclarkian way in that duplicate >>> room. >>> >> >> > Nice. Just one question though. After you duplicate yourself, how do >> you decide which body opens the door and dies? >> > > Nobody dies in your scenario. And being identical both would try to open > the door at the same time but random quantum variations guarantee that one > would open the door slightly before the other. > > John K Clark > > A physical body dies... that's part of the riddle. That's true regardless of what the status of your personhood is. Only one body leaves the sealed room. After duplication the duplicated beings diverge. There are two possibilities: translation in space or translation in time. For translation in space, the body which is result of the duplication (call it JC2) will become manifest in a different physical location than JC1 (the original body). JC2's experience will feel like entering the duplicator, and then suddenly shifting into a new location, whereas JC1 would not experience that. For time-translation, JC1 would step out of the duplicator, and then some time later (one minute, say), JC2 would become manifest. In which case, JC2 would experience walking into the duplicator, and then JC1 suddenly popping into view. Whereas JC1 would just experience walking into the duplicator, walking out, then watching JC2 appear. In either case, they both have identical memories of entering the duplicator. After the duplication occurs, their experiences diverge. Do we agree on that? Terren -- 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.
