[ExI] Let's play What If.

John Clark jonkc at bellsouth.net
Thu Oct 28 15:44:30 UTC 2010


On Oct 28, 2010, at 11:08 AM, Damien Broderick wrote:
> 
> Because *you know that he woke up in the scanning room* and therefore you are a copy.

I don't know how you obtained the information that the original woke up in the scanning room, but if you did somehow know this and you did not wake up in the scanning room then there is now a difference between the two of you and the inevitable divergence has begun. And Damien be honest, would that evidence really be strong enough to convince you that you are a copy? It would be for me but then I don't attach some sort of metaphysical importance to the original. I think there is an unmentioned assumption in all this that most have but I do not, that nanotechnology can duplicate everything except for the soul; hence the plaintive cry "but it just wouldn't be me". Feel free to substitute whatever euphemism for the word "soul" that makes you comfortable. 

 John K Clark


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