tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post5254126818936283604..comments2024-03-28T08:57:53.180+00:00Comments on Darwinian Conservatism by Larry Arnhart: Do We Want Our Dead Bodies to be Resurrected to Eternal Life?Larry Arnharthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14619785331100785170noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-19172404482794213022013-11-05T12:14:55.885+00:002013-11-05T12:14:55.885+00:00"Would that robot really be you? Or would it ..."Would that robot really be you? Or would it be only a copy of you, not the real you? If we uploaded the file into two or more robots, would they all be you? Surely not, if two or more separate persons cannot be the same person."<br /><br />From a transhumanist perspective the answers are: yes, yes and yes.<br /><br />Yes, that robot really would be me, since he would be a continuation of me.<br /><br />Yes, it would be a copy of me too. In fact, were the original version of me alive it'd be said that we've split. There would be first a single "me at t0", then either a single continuation "me at t1" or a splitting into "me1 at t1" and "me2 at t1", each one continuing to diverge from that point onwards.<br /><br />(That relies on refusing of the Ship of Theseus paradox as a cognitive bias.)<br /><br />Finally yes, for the same reason above.<br /><br />Furthermore, if cognitive processing advances enough eventually merging could be available so that different splits "me1, me2, me3..." were able to reunify into a "meA", and this one in turn re-split into "meA1, meA2...".<br /><br />Then even more down the line, perhaps synchronization would become available so as to keep all "meNx" in a state of semi-permanent integration with each other, in clusters or globally.Alexander Gieghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12282340926229637743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16355954.post-28327487902032338452013-11-02T18:51:06.907+00:002013-11-02T18:51:06.907+00:00You might be interested in Frederick Turner's ...You might be interested in Frederick Turner's ideas on this. Particularly from his Natural Religion.<br /><br />It might be that resurrection (with future technology or via heaven -- and how would we be able to tell the difference?) is a recovery of our informational content. Given that information can have errors that can be corrected, it is possible to have something that is both the original and improved. From an informational point of view. Troy Camplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16515578686042143845noreply@blogger.com