X-Message-Number: 16117
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 06:02:57 -0700
From: Lee Corbin <>
Subject: Re: Identity Issue ... Again

Stasys Adiklis says of the duplication scenario
where you can choose self-annihiliation so that
your duplicate gets a big reward...

>Let's add a little twist to it:

>[also let's assume that five minutes is not an "eon" and
>ten million dollars are worth more than those five minutes]

Good.  I'm just in awe of some of the plutocrats on this list for
whom five minutes vs. ten million dollars is a hard choice... :-)

>What if you don't know who is the original?

Yes.  Well, the whole point is that it shouldn't make
any difference.  Even if we knew that this (Lee grabs
cheek and pulls) was the original and my duplicate 
over there was the copy, it wouldn't matter because
after all, **he's an exact duplicate**  (plus or minus
a few minutes of completely expendable memories).  Even
if history vindicates Robert Ettinger's views about the
self-circuit, this still remains true:  everything
physical about one is duplicated by a molecular copying
process.  And that would go for any of the protons, 
neutrons, and electrons that comprised a self-circuit,
or went into the structures that instantiated a self-circuit
pattern.

Lee Corbin

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