Le 13-déc.-05, à 02:07, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit :
>> From the third person perspective, the annihilation of the 10^100
>> copies
> could be seen as 10^100 dead ends. (In fact, when I originally
> proposed this experiment, Hal Finney thought it represented the
> ultimate in mass murder.) If I were one of the 10^100, however, I
> wouldn't be worried in the slightest about the prospect of dying,
> because as long as at least one copy survives, this guarantees that I
> survive. This may go again intuition, but if you give up the notion of
> an immaterial soul, there is no reason why there should be a one to
> one relationship between earlier and later versions of a person.
OK. But from this I deduce that we were agreeing. Eventually this means
we don't take the dead ends into account when computing probabilities
for future extensions of oneself.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
Received on Tue Dec 13 2005 - 05:41:27 PST