[ExI] Let's play What If.

[Damien Broderick]

On 10/27/2010 12:37 PM, John Clark wrote:

> there is a 100% chance you will never have that happy subjective
> experience but instead will walk into the scanning station and find
> yourself on the rack being prodded with red hot irons.

You've changed the implied rules again. You *don't* find yourself on the 
rack, you find yourself being helped out of the compilation vat or off 
the receiving platform or whatever, and taken into the next room or the 
next county to be tortured. You recall settling down to be scanned, and 
curse the day your original was cruelly stupid enough to agree to such a 
barbaric deal, but you know for certain that you are not he because he 
was in the scanning room.

Yes, you can futz around with this to your heart's content, waking both 
the original and the copy in identical rooms and drugging them so they 
can't recall the last hour or so, but then your casuistry becomes obvious.

Damien Broderick