Yet another thought experiment for your consideration. You are offered the option of 10 years of normal life, or being cloned 20 times with each clone living one year. I would choose the 10 years; if I chose the 20 clones, each one of those clones would be kicking themselves for their stupidity. I take it you would choose the 20 clones, and each of your clones would be smug in the knowledge that they have doubled their effective runtime?
Stathis Papaioannou
> From: lcorbin.domain.name.hidden> To: everything-list.domain.name.hidden> Subject: RE: A calculus of personal identity> Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 22:52:07 -0700> > > Stathis wrote> > > Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 5:53 AM> > > which is why in symmetrical duplication experiments I anticipate> > that I will become one of the duplicates with equal probability.> > What do you think of your survival chances if you happen to know> that after you fall asleep tonight, you will be disintegrated,> but the information will be used to create two exact duplicates,> and then one of the duplicates is vaporized and the other > returned to your bed completely unaware?> > Zero? (I.e., you don't survive the "teleportation" aspect at all.)> > One-half? (I.e., your soul goes into one at random, and if that's> the one that dies, then your number is up.)> > One? (I.e., Stathis will wake up in bed for sure tomorrow, and> resume his life just as he has done everyday (since our> fiendish experiments began when he was five years old))> > Lee> > > _________________________________________________________________
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