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Post by shawnturner on Dec 27, 2017 9:07:19 GMT -5
Hello, I've been thinking a lot about the philosophy of identity, mostly in sci-fi ish thought expiriments. But the more I think about it, the thornier it makes spiritual issues as well. Let's imagine this. Suppose I'm a criminal in the star trek universe and when I'm getting beamed to the courthouse there's an error that results in an exact duplicate of me. Should both be put in jail for my crimes? Now suppose there were some errors with one of the copies. He now has the same personality, but no memory of the crime committed. Should only the one with memory be punished? Suppose other things get changed as well. In the teleporting process, the copy not only loses memory of the crime, but other things as well. He no longer... thanks more details: Pharmaceutical ads
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