<div dir="ltr"><div>Here is a purported proof in the affirmative:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081122035412/http://www.leecorbin.com/dupproof.html">https://web.archive.org/web/20081122035412/http://www.leecorbin.com/dupproof.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>And a nice story to accompany it:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081122035540/http://www.leecorbin.com/PitAndDuplicate.html">https://web.archive.org/web/20081122035540/http://www.leecorbin.com/PitAndDuplicate.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jason</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 2:37 PM Ben via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><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>
Any takers?<br>
<br>
To reiterate the question:<br>
<br>
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>
<br>
Would they be two completely new people, unrelated to the original (who <br>
could now be regarded as dead), would they be two versions of the same <br>
person, each with an equally valid claim to be 'the original' (just as I <br>
can claim to be the 'original me' of 10 minutes ago), or would they be <br>
something else I've not thought about?<br>
<br>
Or is this thought experiment somehow flawed, and not relevant to the <br>
question?<br>
<br>
Any opinions?<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Ben Zaiboc<br>
<br>
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