Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-03 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2009/3/3 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: I think that comp practitioners will divide, in the long run,  along three classes: A:  majority. Accept teleportation but disallow overlap of individuals: annihilation first, reconstitution after. No right to self-infliction. In case of accidental

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-03 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
2009/3/3 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: I think that comp practitioners will divide, in the long run,  along three classes: A:  majority. Accept teleportation but disallow overlap of individuals: annihilation first, reconstitution after. No right to self-infliction. In case of accidental

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-03 Thread ronaldheld
Stathis This was mentioned in the TNG technical manual. I do not recall, right, now, which post TOS episodes mentioned it. Ronald On Mar 2, 8:42 am, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/2 ronaldheld ronaldh...@gmail.com:

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 03 Mar 2009, at 13:40, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: 2009/3/3 Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be: I think that comp practitioners will divide, in the long run, along three classes: A: majority. Accept teleportation but disallow overlap of individuals: annihilation first, reconstitution

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-03 Thread Günther Greindl
Hi, better: this is just the usual comp-suicide self-selection (assuming of course we can really kill the copies, which is in itself not an obvious proposition). I have been thinking along these lines lately, in a somewhat different context: the teleportation with annihilation