[ExI] Fwd: Open Individualism

[Adrian Tymes]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 7:19 AM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> When there are three possibilities and two are logically ruled out, what
> do you call that? Is such reasoning not a necessary part of science?
>

In this case?  That you are incorrectly assuming that there are only three
possibilities, or that you are tripping over your wording to assume that
two are logically ruled out.


> There are only two opinions for the question of whether or not you survive
> the teleportation machine: either you survive, or you don't.
>

Define "you".  Define "survive".  There are quite many outcomes where the
"you" by one definition survives by one definition of "survive", but pick
certain other definitions for either or both words, and you do not survive
by the new definition(s).  This allows for a situation where it is
simultaneously true that you survive (by one set of definitions) and that
you don't survive (by another set).

Unfortunately, further discussion of this situation has confused the
definitions after picking a set that determines whether you survive or
don't.  For instance, the situation where another body is made at the far
side then the initial body is destroyed could be argued that you (the
original body) do not survive...but this is then used to argue that no one
who goes through a teleporter has no legal rights to that identity's
possessions (as that identity did not survive), which is clearly not the
case: were that to happen today, the law would assume that what emerged on
the far side was still "you".  "You" by one definition did not survive,
while "you" by another definition did survive.
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