A view on cryonics (was Re: [extropy-chat] Bad Forecasts!)

[John K Clark]

"Slawomir Paliwoda" <velvethum at hotmail.com>

> Isn't the  existence of the clone completely irrelevant as to what
> you experience as an  original?

Nope, the reason is that you don’t have thoughts, you are thoughts, and it
doesn’t really matter what hardware is thinking you.

> Your initial claim was that there could exist no method to objectively
> verify one's identity.

My claim was and still is that I can devise thought experiments where the
two individuals involved do not know which is the copy and which is the
original, nor does anyone else, nor will anyone ever know.

 > Could you superimpose two separate mind processes so that their 4-D
 > parameter values would be exactly the same?

Yep.

  John K Clark     jonkc at att.net