Re: [sl4] Uploading (was : goals of AI)

From: Stathis Papaioannou (stathisp@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Dec 02 2009 - 15:32:26 MST


2009/12/3 Bradley Thomas <brad36@gmail.com>:
>>I can give an exact answer to your question. I would not hesitate to kill
> myself if the copy that survives is running in lockstep with me, since in
> that case I could expect to live on in the copy with an uninterrupted stream
> of consciousness.
>
> The only instance of you that is going to be in lockstep with you, is you!

A computer program running on two machines in parallel could produce
two streams of consciousness in lockstep.

-- 
Stathis Papaioannou


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