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Darin Sunley dsunley at gmail.com
Fri May 15 20:51:03 UTC 2020


Questions of philosophical identity are all fun and games until they
slam into property rights at relativistic speed.

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 2:47 PM Darin Sunley <dsunley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Put another way, there is a deeply meaningful difference between "me" and
> "a copy of me". We have strongly differing preferences as to whose key
> opens the locks to my house, and whose bank account "my" employer deposits
> "my" paycheque into.
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 2:44 PM Darin Sunley <dsunley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The concept is very simple. I don't want that "me" changing the locks on
>> "my" house.
>>
>> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 2:40 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 4:22 PM Ben via extropy-chat <
>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> *> I can't really get my head around this concept that an identical
>>>> copy (agood-enough copy, really) of you isn't really 'you'.*
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't understand that either. It would be like saying Homer didn't
>>> write the iliad and the Odyssey, it was really written by another blind
>>> poet from Ionia who also lived in the eighth century BC and happen to have
>>> the same name.
>>>
>>> John K Clark
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>>
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