<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lee Corbin</b> <<a href="mailto:lcorbin@rawbw.com">lcorbin@rawbw.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
(Where I went on to disagree with *most* of the people here, and always<br>have, is whether this new program that "remembers being me" is fully me<br>if --- just as in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus">
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus</a> --- the "real"<br>me, i.e., the original brain, is then revealed to not have been destroyed at all,<br>but sequestered in a nearby hotel room.)</blockquote><div><br>
So how does the program's status change if the original you is discovered? Or how would you feel any different if it were revealed to you that, without your knowledge, a copy of you had been made and was living in China for the past year?
<br><br>Stathis Papaioannou<br></div><br></div><br>