On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 at 7:18 am, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> The point is you seem to be saying that with 1->1 duplication you would >> be satisfied that you survive, >> > > Yes. > > > > >> but if an additional copy is made you would not. > > > I see, so if tomorrow 2 people remember being me today then nobody > tomorrow will remember being me today, so tomorrow I will be dead. > Waite...that does not compute. . > > > >> > >> You probably feel that you have survived as the same person from >> yesterday, but if you (the version reading this) discover that you were >> surreptitiously duplicated, it would mean that yesterday's version of you >> had in fact died. >> > > So I'll be dead, I'll think and feel like I'm > > alive but "really" I'll be dead. That sounds good enough for me! If true > that would be wonderful news because that would mean death was not all it's > cracked up to be, in fact death would be a big nothing. But it all sounds a > little too good to be true. > > >> > >> So you can't really be sure today that you have survived from yesterday, >> > > *Then who the hell cares if you've "survived ' or not?! What does the > word mean?* > You have said multiple times that if there is more than one copy of you then the idea if using personal pronouns when discussing the future is gibberish, and because of this, you would not make provisions for any of your putative future selves. > -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
