[ExI] Continuity of experience.

[Stefano Vaj]

2010/2/23 John Clark <jonkc at bellsouth.net>

> Then you will be dead in the next few seconds because the human body is
> constantly rebuilding itself and never does so perfectly. You are last years
> mashed potatoes.
>

Indeed.

Survival instinct is entirely about the gene whisper. Face to situations
where such whisper has little to say, all depends from the metaphor one
chooses to adhere to.

What can be said for sure is that face to, say, the generalised availability
of teleport, those still willing to wait in lines at an airport out of the
argument that by going through the process you are killed, and that the copy
subsequently created at destination is of little consolation for their
former self, will be quickly ranged in the ranks of weirdoes.

The same applies to whether uploads or persuasive, albeit artificial,
personas, are really "conscious" or not, etc.

Sociology has often a way to resolve for good what philosophy per se could
never decide.

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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