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Re:Welcome To Life by JonnieCache on Monday May 14, 2012 @08:12AM (#3970653)
What makes you so sure of that? What is the important difference between the copy and you, assuming that they behave identically?

How much "like" you would a copy have to be before it caused you ontological distress?

Re:Welcome To Life by ericb on Monday May 14, 2012 @08:44AM (#3970781)
It isn't about degree of similarity.

If I don't have access to their mental state, they are not me. I think I am like an instance of an object, and my identity is related to my path through space and time. To be me, they'd have to be standing where I stand, and have stood where I stood.

A 100% copy of the mona lisa is still not the mona lisa--it lacks the history.

Re:Welcome To Life by scotty79 on Monday May 14, 2012 @09:18AM (#3970909)
You don't always get what you want. When mona lisa gets destroyed 100% copy becomes just as good with it's own history of being perfect copy of something that had long history.