> John Mikes wrote:
>> Brent:
>> who is making that 'backup' or 'replica' of you? and why?
It is only a thought experiment to make clear what we care about
regarding personal identity.
And if computationalism is true, this thought experiment will be
practically quite relevant in the near(?) future (as in mind uploading
etc) (see Bostrom and Sandberg; Whole Brain emulation roadmap
http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/Reports/2008-3.pdf)
And as regards COMP, the duplications occur all the time.
Cheers,
Günther
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group.
To post to this group, send email to everything-list.domain.name.hidden
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscribe.domain.name.hidden
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Received on Fri Feb 27 2009 - 18:14:04 PST