[ExI] Coherent vs. Incoherent Fears of Being Uploaded

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Mon Jan 18 23:36:15 UTC 2010


2010/1/19 Lee Corbin <lcorbin at rawbw.com>:

> And don't forget the "day-persons". These are people whose
> philosophic intuition is so backward and rudimentary that
> upon being exposed to materialism and the fact that they're
> made of atoms, and the fact that they must concede that
> they lose consciousness during sleep HENCEFORTH MAINTAIN
> THAT THEY ARE NOT THE SAME PEOPLE FROM DAY TO DAY.

These folk are not necessarily so backward! They may maintain that
they are not the same person from day to day but conclude as a result
that being "the same person" is either not important or not what we
originally thought it was. They might thus decide that teleportation
is OK, because if you're afraid of teleportation, then you should also
be afraid of going to sleep.


-- 
Stathis Papaioannou



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