[ExI] Is a copy of you really you?

Ben ben at zaiboc.net
Wed May 27 18:37:26 UTC 2020


On 27/05/2020 17:33, SR Ballard wrote:
> If the mother-copy is destroyed and two daughter-copies are created

This is the kind of thinking I'm trying to get away from.

In what sense is the mother-copy destroyed? All of it's original 
molecules are still there (albeit randomly distributed between the two 
daughter-bodies), all of the information is preserved (x2, now), so 
where is the destruction? I see none at all.

-- 
Ben Zaiboc



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