<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Oct 26, 2010, at 7:35 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">If you were given the choice of being duplicated a million times with<br>one of the copies being tortured or once with one of the copies being<br>tortured would you have any preference for one or the other case,<br>given that in both cases it is certain that there will be one<br>individual who is tortured?</span></blockquote><br></div><div>It wouldn't matter, there is still a 100% chance I will be tortured and a 100% chance I will not be. Making a million copies, or one copy, or no copy at all doesn't matter until things happen to one them but not the other and they start to differentiate. A million identical copies of you running in a million identical environments would produce only one conscious being until Quantum Mechanics or something else got then out of sync. Torture would count as something else. </div><div><br></div><div> John K Clark </div><br></body></html>