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If you speak to Christians who believe in souls (not philosophers or Jewish theologians, who have boundless capacities for mental contortions), they'll agree th
by ucarion 10y ago
If you speak to Christians who believe in souls (not philosophers or Jewish theologians, who have boundless capacities for mental contortions), they'll agree that teleportation/copying is problematic to the idea of souls. Who goes to heaven in these situations?
- ZenoArrow 10y agoIt goes deeper than just souls. Even if you don't believe in souls, what do you think it means about identity? What part of you is 'you' (as in, the consciousness you define as yourself)? If you try to limit it to something to bash religious people you're missing the bigger picture.
- ucarion 10y agoI'm not trying to use Parfit to bash religion -- I just chose this particular example. For the average person, souls are more interesting than Mere Addition or mixing your brain with Greta Garbo's. The fact that many have been goaded into replying (and hopefully many more are silently reading Parfit) seems to confirm this.
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- koide 10y agoI believe what's really problematic is the absence of teleporters or person copiers...