Comment on Cryonics without freezers: resurrection possibilities in a Big World

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 04:28:50 GMT

The point I was trying to convey was that there is a huge difference between if I die vs a copy elsewhere of me dying.

Hence me using the programming metaphor. If I am an instance, it matters a hell of a lot if it is this particular instance that gets scrapped vs some other instance of Sly.

My argument is that ageing is more like modifying the variables, whereas the Big Universe copy of sly is a separate instance.

Therefore it makes a lot of sense why I do not consider the copy of Sly to be me. I do not equate the two as other people here really want too. I also reject the idea that ageing identity loss is comparable to death identity loss, this seems to be completely wishful thinking.

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