Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-10-23 Thread razihassan
On Oct 22, 2:34 pm, Michael Rosefield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 1) My thoughts are that an act of euthanasia would be more likely to 'push' the consciousness of the patient to some hitherto unlikely scenario - any situation where death is probable requires an improbable get-out clause.

Re: QTI euthanasia

2008-10-23 Thread razihassan
The problem you raise is one of personal identity, and can be illustrated without invoking QTI. If I am copied 100 times so that copy #1 has 1% of my present memories, copy #2 has 2% of my present memories, and so on to copy #100 which has 100% of my present memories, which copy should I

QTI euthanasia

2008-10-22 Thread razihassan
Hi all First post! I'm happy to have found this list as much of it coincides with what I've been thinking about in the past few years, esp. after reading about quantum roulette and realising, as many others have done, that this leads to quantum immortality. 1) Lately, I've been thinking about