<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 4:16 AM Stathis Papaioannou 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"><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 at 20:01, Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">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">
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<div><br></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">But there is a problem because if there are multiple copies they are not telepathically linked. Each copy feels itself to be the unique continuation of the original, because that is how our psychology has evolved. This is the case even if each copy knows, logically, that all the other copies have equal claim to be the continuation of the original.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### Absolutely. Our intuitive sense of self evolved in the context of uploading not being available and when considering uploading it throws up alerts that don't make sense once looked at rationally. The context under which the sense of self evolved will soon no longer be valid. It's very similar to our appetite for sugar that evolved under food scarcity but today brings a lot of grief to people living among plenty.</div><div><br></div><div>This is a good reason to reach deep down into your mind with the cold scalpel of reason and excise feelings that are counterproductive. I did and my feelings about upload copying are thoroughly modernized now. If I had multiple copies of me made, each copy would treat the other as self in almost all situations, up to and including being willing to die to protect other copies. Like a band of brothers, but more so.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafal</div></div></div>