[extropy-chat] Cryonics and uploading

[Heartland]

> At 07:00 PM 1/29/2006 -0500, Slawomir wrote:
>
>>  The copy will be me in the sense that it will carry the same identity.
>> Still, I will not be experiencing the life of the copy. The original will
>> experience his own life.

Damien wrote:
> Exactly. Or not, assuming destructive copying.
>
> Good dog! I can't believe intelligent people still don't get this, after
> at least a decade of the same old same old.

Amazing, isn't it? Especially since it seems like a blindingly obvious and
trivial thing to realize. The emphasis is on "blindingly", too hard to see.
I can't believe it either that so many people still don't get it.

My strategy during the current round of debates has been to focus attention
of readers on subjective POV of the original.

Why should you be jealous of your perfect clone eating your chocolate in
front of you if the clone is "technically" you? And if you're not
experiencing the taste of chocolate by watching your identical copy eat it 
now and in your presence, then what makes you think that the creation of 
your copy in the future will "wake you up" from the cryonic suspension and 
give you ability to taste it?

Well, we'll see if that angle makes people realize what's going on.

Slawomir