X-Message-Number: 16106
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:22:19 +0300
From: Stasys Adiklis <>
Subject: Re: Identity Issue ... Again
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Hi,

Let's add a little twist to it:

[also let's assume that five minutes is not an "eon" and
ten million dollars are worth more than those five minutes]

> Suppose that you are taken into the next room where a
> frozen duplicate of you, made five minutes ago, lies
> encased in ice.  There is a briefcase on top the ice
> cask containing ten million dollars, and you may either
> (a) choose to have your duplicate and the money be
> disintegrated, or (b) choose to be disintegrated
> yourself.  If you select the latter, then the duplicate
> is defrosted and gets to deposit the money.
> 
> The question is, given that you are to make the most
> self-interested decision you can, for the benefit of
> the person you consider yourself to be, would you choose
> (a) or (b)?

And what if you don't know who is the original?


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