[ExI] Is a copy of you really you?

[Brent Allsop]

Hi Robin,

Thanks for this info.  I am not much of a reader of novels, so haven’t read
this book.

But do you talk about “eefing of the ineffable” or merging consciousness at
all?

For example, if you had a neural ponytail
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0mAKz7eLRc&t=125s> that functions like
the corpus callosum (only instead of just computationally binding 2
hemispheres, It would merge 4), you could then experience all of the
experiences, not just half.  This would let you know things like if your
redness was like your partner’s greenness and such.



I agree there will be lots of copies, but they will also be
“computationally bound”, and such, so more like one larger individual
consciousness (the way our brain has two computationally bound hemispheres
for one individual), than multiple individuals.



On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 3:02 PM Robin D Hanson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I disagree; I wrote a whole book describing a reasonable world where many
> copies are made:
> http://ageofem.com
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> On May 29, 2020, at 10:40 AM, Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> This is still my conclusion, and yes this thing was beaten to death
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> It was understood, not solved because there was nothing to solve.
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> It was also understood that except for corner cases, like crews for
> starships, that making copies of people was a bad idea.
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> Robin Hanson rhanson at gmu.edu
> Future of Humanity Inst., Oxford University
> Assoc. Prof. Economics, George Mason University
> See my books: http://ageofem.com http://elephantinthebrain.com
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