On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 10:41 PM Bruce Kellett <bhkellet...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> After my body has been duplicated but before I have open the door of the >> duplicating chamber to see where I was I won't know if I will be the >> John Clark who has seen Moscow or the John Clark who has seen Helsinki, and >> indeed the distinction between the two would be meaningless because the two >> would be identical until the door is opened and they differentiate because >> then >> one has the memory of seeing Moscow but the other has the memory of >> seeing Helsinki. So if both decided to place a bet on what they would see >> after the door was opened (and if one decided to place a bet then the other >> certainly would too because they're identical) then, provided they were >> logical,and I think I am at least most of the time, they would both put the >> odds at 50-50. >> > > *> So how do you accommodate a situation in which there is a 90% chance of > seeing Moscow and a 10% chance of seeing Helsinki?* > *You've asked that exact same question several times before so I'll answer it the exact same way I did before because you never made an argument against what I said, you just keep asking the same question again. If I know the duplicating machine has made 10 copies of me and that 9 of them are in Helsinki and 1 is in Moscow then then 9 John Clark's will remember seeing Helsinki but only 1 will remember seeing Moscow; so if they place odds after the duplication but before the door was opened and they observe where they are they would all say there was a 90% chance they were in Helsinki, and 90% of them would turn out to be correct and would win their bet. * *And even if the machine made an infinite number of copies, all slightly different, there would still only be a FINITE number of them that have brains similar enough to mine to produce a conscious experience virtually identical to that of John Clark's.* John K Clark See what's on my new list at *Extropolis* <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> w61 lmt -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2bZCgrRzbyVPr-vC3mEr1iYzjtwXAn-vWpw7%2BT%3Dybcwg%40mail.gmail.com.
