X-Message-Number: 11171
From: "Trygve B. Bauge" <>
Subject: Survival by duplication.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 05:39:16 +0100

The goal seems to be the highest possible continuation of one self.  As a
technological challenge one could attempt to link the consciousness of
several duplicates or clones in such a way that they would share the
combined senseimput from all of them and the same consciousness. Any
experience made by any of the duplicates would then become a part of the
common memory shared by all of them. A duplicate would then be an
enhancement to your own consciousness and not a separate individual
growing still more apart from you. If you or any of your duplicates dies,
the shared consciousness  would then continue to exist in the surviving
copies. With more computer research maybe one egged twins could be linked
still closer to one another, so to share still more of one another's sense
input? Of course you and your duplicates would each be a separate entity,
but might it not be possible to link your sense of being, the same way
different parts of your own body presently is experienced as being you,
and sp that losing one of the duplicates would be no more traumatic than
losing a limb? Is't the sense of being and one's sense of being oneself a
feedback reaction so that one in a sense have learned and concluded what
that constitutes oneslef, based on sensing what that hangs together  as
one's body and what is separate from this. Couldn't one come to see
several duplicates as being part of oneself, and separate from the rest of
the world, if these duplicates were linked up properly to one another? If
one transplants an arm and links the nerve ends so that one link up with
the sensations of that arm, then that arm would soon become part of one's
experience of what constitutes oneself. Couldn't duplicates be linked up
in a similar way, but wire less, or by cellular uplinks so to speak?  

  

 

 

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