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On the same token, if you cloned me, and he was sitting next to me and I had to choose who would get shot, I'd choose him. He isn't me because I can't access hi
by ericb 19y ago
On the same token, if you cloned me, and he was sitting next to me and I had to choose who would get shot, I'd choose him. He isn't me because I can't access his thoughts. I think identity is tied to physical and temporal location and is in continual flux, so a clone is never me--it never occupies the same points in space and time. The nerve replacement idea is tough, though. Maybe our idea of identity is wrong, artificial, or too limiting.
- pchristensen 19y agoOf course, he'd definitely pick you to get shot!
- ericb 19y agoTrue, but what I'm getting at is if we were the "same" we wouldn't care.
- pchristensen 19y agoAh, the old "different forms of equality" problem. You're thinking === (same object in memory) while I'm thinking == (identical copies).
- ericb 19y agoWell said.
- andreyf 19y agoI wouldn't care, and I'd bet that neither would you. Think of it this way - were you ever shocked by the teleporters in Star Trek? After all, this is precisely what they did: make a copy of someone, then dissolve the old copy.
- jauco 19y agoHave you seen the less advanced version of those teleporters in the movie 'The Prestige'? Where you shocked about that?