Re: Bruno's teleportation device is a quantum suicide device

From: Hal Finney <hal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 22:18:16 -0700

Russell Standish writes:
> If someone offered you a replacement mechanical brain which the
> surgeons guarantees would emulate your current brain state perfectly,
> would you take up the offer?
> ...
> If you only believed in a single track universe, I think this is
> tantamount to asking someone to commit suicide on the bet that a
> better afterlife awaits for them.

What do you mean by "better afterlife" here? Do you mean literally a
religious-style afterlife, that his brain will be destroyed and so he
will be dead, and he has to hope that there is some afterlife in Heaven
or some similar place? Or do you mean that he has to hope that his
"identity" will be transfered to the mechanical brain, and that the
afterlife is his life with the mechanical brain?

Hal Finney
Received on Wed Jun 19 2002 - 22:32:53 PDT