X-Message-Number: 32885
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:42:43 -0700
From: Edgar Swank - President <>
Subject: Edgar replies to Pizer on duplicates

Pizer said


> Pizer:  After a duplicate of you is made and you exist across from the 
duplicate, it is wrong to say as you have above "both copies have an ..."   
There are not two copies in my scenario.  There is the original and a duplicate.
The original is not a copy.  We know the original is the original.  We know 
the duplicate is a duplicate.  
>   

How do we know which is which? The "original" goes into the duplication 
machine and two persons come out. "duplicate" means they are identical. 
Do we ask them, "who is the duplicate?" They will both say, "I am the 
original." In a cryonics scenario, it's likely there will be no 
"original" only copies, reconstruction(s) based on information recovered 
from a frozen corpse.


> Therefore survival of the duplicate Edgar with destruction of the original 
Edgar, is NOT survival of you, Edgar.

By that artificial criterion, I'm afraid none of us will survive. I 
believe "I" am my memories, anything revived with my memories (or most 
of them) will think it is me. I in the here and now also think that will 
be "me" or good enough.

-- 
Edgar W. Swank   <>
President - American Cryonics Society
http://AmericanCryonics.org
Phone: 408-227-3471
Cell:  408-605-4721
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