[ExI] Let's play What If.

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:

> 2) If copying requires destruction of the original, is it psychologically
> likely that he will go to his death happy in the knowledge that his exact
> subsequent copy will continue elsewhere? Many here say, "Hell, yes, it's
> only evolved biases and cognitive errors that could support any other
> opinion!" Others say, "Maybe so, but you're not getting me into that damned
> gas chamber."
>
> So if the world becomes filled with people happy to be killed and copied, of
> course it's likely that after a few hundred iterations identity will be
> construed this way by almost everyone. If the USA becomes filled with the
> antiabortion offspring of the duped who believe evolution is a godless hoax
> and humans never walked on the moon, those opinions will also be validated.
> So what?

There is no contradiction in the assertion that the person survives
even though the original is destroyed, because survival of the person
and survival of the original are two different things.


-- 
Stathis Papaioannou