<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 12:37 PM Ben via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">OK, I've still not heard anything from anyone who subscribes to the 'a <br>
copy of you is not you' school of thought, about my 'amoeba' question,<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I can reply, though I do not subscribe to that train of thought.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">If an entire person could be replicated in a similar way to how an <br>
amoeba reproduces (every organelle in every cell is reproduced and <br>
randomly assigned to one of two daughter cells, which then separate, <br>
maintaining all the relationships with all the other cells in the <br>
relevant daughter organism) how would you regard the two resultant people?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Personally, I would regard them starting out as the same person, but immediately becoming two distinct people who used to be the same person.</div><div><br></div><div>"You" is timeline-dependent. The "you" of tomorrow is not the "you" of today, and neither are the "you" of yesterday.</div></div></div>