On 7/10/2015 5:30 pm, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On 6 October 2015 at 16:54, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
It is possible that you might be able to make copies -- you
certainly can for AI. A copy means that information from the
original was used to construct the copy.
Where I use "copy" you might use a different word. Let's define
"doppelganger" as something which resembles the original arbitrarily
closely but was not constructed using information from the original,
while a "copy" is the same except constructed using information from
the original. Using these definitions, are you saying that if you are
replaced by a copy you will survive, whereas if you are replaced by a
doppelganger you will not?
I am saying, among other things, that you cannot establish that such
'doppelgangers' exist. Even if you had a purported doppelganger, you
could not establish that is was identical to you.
Theorizing on the basis of such doppelgangers is unsound.
Bruce
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