On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 at 1:48 am, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 7:33 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> It seems that you would want your assets distributed to the copies, >> ideally both of them, if not both then one, randomly chosen (“it doesn’t >> matter which one”). > > > Yes. I want somebody tomorrow who remembers being me today because I > prefer existence to nonexistence, others may have a different preference > and that's OK because there is no disputing matters of taste. > > > >> That’s what someone would do if they expected to survive the copying >> process. > > > I do expect to survive the > copying process > , even better I expect I'll have a backup, although why my expectations > should be of interest to anyone but me I don't know. > Then the question “what future experiences will I have” is not nonsensical. If it were then I could not have the expectation of surviving, since to survive I must have future experiences, and I could not conceive of having future experiences if “I” loses meaning when I contemplate the post-duplication future. > -- 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.
