[ExI] simulation as an improvement over reality.

[Damien Broderick]

On 1/5/2011 6:11 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:

> Although you acknowledge that you still think there is something
> special about one copy rather than the other, so that one is "you" and
> the other is not.

The way you choose to express this reveals a confusion. As I've argued 
previously, the original (by definition) is NOT a "copy". It is an 
instance. The copy is also an instance, but it is a copied or emulated 
instance, not the original instance. Does this make any practical or 
legal or moral difference to either of them? That's a judgment call. If 
it's necessary to obliterate or disassemble the original instance in 
order to transport a snapshot of its configuration elsewhere in space or 
time, then build a copy emulating the original's functions, I see no 
stake for the original in this process. You and many others on this list 
disagree. John Clark tells us he'd do it in a heartbeat. Okay. There is 
a disagreement over what seems self-evident and there the discussion has 
to stop.

Damien Broderick