Re: [sl4] Personal identity (was Re: A teleporter)

From: John K Clark (johnkclark@fastmail.fm)
Date: Mon Feb 09 2009 - 14:28:55 MST


On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 "Stuart Armstrong"
<dragondreaming@googlemail.com> said:

> Essentially I take my expectations about the futures,
> my ambitions, and my relationships with other
> to be part of me.

And all those things can be distilled down to a pattern of generic atoms
arranged in space, a pattern that can be expressed with enough
adjectives, enough information.

> If my hardware is changed, then these
> things will also be changed.

Why? Apple or Windows, it’s all Microsoft Word to me.

 John K Clark

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