[ExI] Fw: Re: simulation as an improvement over reality

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 3:00 AM, Ben Zaiboc <bbenzai at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > > Your argument is the same
>> as the old one about a person who, after being copied,
>> should be quite happy to shoot himself. ?Naturally that is
>> silly. ?Nobody would be happy to shoot themselves,
>> regardless of how many identical copies of them were in
>> existence.
>> >
>> > Unless the identical copies are in lockstep and
>> shooting oneself will
>> > leave at least one of the copies running. In that
>> case, the stream of
>> > consciousness of the terminated copies would continue
>> uninterrupted.
>>
>>
>
>
>  Weeeelll...
>
>  If one of a set of copies in lock-step shoots itself, so do
>  all the others!

In lockstep up to the point where a copy is terminated. You naturally
have two brains running almost in lockstep in your head connected by a
thick cable, the corpus callosum, and if one is damaged or destroyed,
your consciousness continues.


-- 
Stathis Papaioannou