<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/16/07, <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;">
So, just to be clear and for the record, an instance of you<br>given the choice between saving itself xor saving an extremely<br>recent duplicate who would be able to deposit $10M to the<br>S. P. account, that instance of you would choose for itself
<br>to survive?</blockquote><div><br>It's a real conundrum. If I am to be consistent (let's use this word rather than "rational") I should as readily agree to this as to a period of memory loss for the same prize. But then to me it seems obvious that if agree to this, I am agreeing to my present self experiencing permanent death (no successor observer moments, no future selves which contain my present memories), and will never even know whether the copy I am doing it for will be cheated. So, to be consistent, if I agree to this, I may as well be agreeing to die for nothing, or at best for some benefit to friends or family whom I will never see again. So my answer is: with much trepidation, convincing myself that memory loss is no big deal, and thus by extension also convincing myself that death is no big deal, I would choose life for the copy with all the money. But I'm not sure I will be able to do it on the day.
<br><br>Stathis Papaioannou<br></div></div><br>