Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mmintl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: More Atheistic Wishful Thinking Message-ID: <673@mmintl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 15:43:05 EDT Article-I.D.: mmintl.673 Posted: Fri Sep 20 15:43:05 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 07:48:56 EDT References: <1566@umcp-cs.UUCP> <714@utastro.UUCP> <1590@umcp-cs.UUCP> <726@utastro.UUCP> Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT Lines: 17 In article <726@utastro.UUCP> padraig@utastro.UUCP (Padraig Houlahan) writes: > >Now here's the absurdity bit. Suppose your wife meets you after you >have been resurrected into two identities say, which one does she >identify as being her husband? That isn't an absurdity. It is a social problem, and one which has not been dealt with as yet (for the obvious reason that it has never happened). But to put the question a bit differently, suppose a perfect copy of you is made. Which does your wife identify as her husband, you or the copy? The answer is that she has no way of knowing. (Assume she does not witness the process; one of you walks into a room, and two walk out.) There are going to be real social problems when (not if -- an opinion) such technologies are developed, because our social system makes assumptions about the singularity of identity which do not stand up to close examination. Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com