Re: A calculus of personal identity

From: Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 14:05:20 +0200

Le 08-juil.-06, à 18:26, Stathis Papaioannou a écrit :


> It's as well that this is just an online forum, because I think that
> if my clone could make me vanish, he probably would do it rather than
> face life sharing my possessions, my secrets, and so on. Would that be
> suicide or homicide?



Suicide if you make the decision *before* the duplication. Homicide if
you (or your doppelganger) makes the decision *after* the duplication.
I would say. Grosso modo.

Bruno




http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/


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