On 6/26/07, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 08:08:17PM -0400, Jey Kottalam wrote:
> On 6/25/07, Matt Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >You can only transfer
> >consciousness if you kill the original.
>
> What is the justification for this claim?
Because the copies diverge, unless subject to
synchronization boundary condition.
"Killing" is an interesting word, with several interpretations. In a
sense, it's true that you need to "kill" the original - the original
certainly isn't exactly the same after being uploaded, in the same
sense that going to school will kill the self that never went to
school.
That's not what most people mean when they say you need to kill the
original, though. Which leaves me a bit confused. Why keep getting
stuck on the viewpoint where the only method of uploading is making a
copy and then destroying the original, when the prospect of gradually
turning your neurons into artificial ones has already been brought up
on the list? In a way, sure, it's still an original dying - but no
more than normally living a couple of decades is an original dying,
which most people don't count as dying. So why call it death now?
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