X-Message-Number: 26634 References: <> From: Kennita Watson <> Subject: Re: Mental Tangles Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 03:56:32 -0700 wrote: > Imagine I murder you and am duplicated in such a way that when me > and my duplicate awake, there are no obvious indications of which > one is the duplicate. Did my duplicate commit the murder? No. I > committed the murder---my duplicate is mistaken in his belief that > he committed the murder, just as he is mistaken in his belief that > he is the original me. The 'original me' has a very precise > definition, which allows one to differentiate between me and a copy > of me. More generally, the concept of identity for real-world > What if you are duplicated not by having one static 'you' and one 'copy', but by bifurcation, like an amoeba? In this case, both 'child yous' would be descended from the 'parent you' in the same way, and either both of you committed the murder or neither did. Cheers, Kennita Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26634