Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!davidson From: davidson@sdcsvax.UUCP (Greg Davidson) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: matter transmission and duplication Message-ID: <1099@sdcsvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 05:25:13 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.1099 Posted: Fri Sep 13 05:25:13 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 19-Sep-85 06:13:55 EDT References: <3617@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Reply-To: davidson@sdcsvax.UUCP (Greg davidson) Organization: EECS Dept. U.C. San Diego Lines: 16 Summary: A duplicate of me is just as good as me People who won't accept a perfect duplicate of themselves as a substitute for their continuity in their original body may be idealizing the continuity of their body and personality over time, both of which are only approximate. They may also have some unexamined mystical concepts of self. Let's do a thought experiment and find out. How do you know that your personality DOESN'T die every night, and get recreated imperfectly from backups in the morning? Imagine this were really the case; say it had just been discovered, and you read it this morning in Science magazine. Would it matter? Would you avoid going to sleep, since it WAS death to do so? I can't see as how it would make ANY difference, so why should I object to a perfect copy replacing me? As long as the change over were done gracefully. _Greg Davidson Virtual Infinity Systems, San Diego Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com