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"YH QotD."

If there was this machine, that when you walked into it, it would copy you in every way (physical appearance, memories, emotions etc), but then deleted the "you" that walked into the machine, and let the copy out, would you walk in?

If you wouldn't, why not?

I have the same device

I call it a cupboard and when I step in AN EXACT COPY OF ME IS MADE WITHOUT ME KNOWING. I'll go do it now.......







See? It's me Sheepy

Waheh

I wouldn't, because despite the fact that the machine is exactly like me, it is not me - it is not the same thing as before I walked in. It would be like giving something else your life, but I myself would still be dead.

By the way - anyone remember me? :-)

I wouldn't try it because I see no reason why I should.

I do, but you're only considering it from the perspective that YOU are solely and only ever the original you.

Think about it from the clone's perspective. If no-one told you that there was another you that got destroyed, the clone, for all intents and purposes IS you.

Insane Bartender wrote:
> Of course you control the clone, you ARE the clone. It's nothing to do
> with controlling both of them.

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No, the clone is a copy of you. How could YOU control the clone, if you're dead? You just don't see what I'm getting at, do you?

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> As for re-incarnation, the very concept is completely stupid.

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Maybe so, but to me it's more realistic than heaven.

monkey_man wrote:
> If I span round really fast whilst it was copying me, would it make a
> version of me that was completely cylindrical?
*****
Funniest thing I've read today.
*Laughs*

Insane Bartender wrote:
> I once removed a mole on my belly by tying string around it to cut off
> the blood supply.
>
> Worked perfectly.

Cool, i had a mole removed too, but i used a surgeon.

I think IB is right, despite the original you being destroyed you would believe that you were still alive. Probably waking up as the clone and thinking something along the lines of "WTF?".

Paradox wrote:
> I dont trust science, so no.

Says he who typed that silly comment on an apparatus and chair entirely constructed using science....

Of course you control the clone, you ARE the clone. It's nothing to do with controlling both of them.

As for re-incarnation, the very concept is completely stupid.

"The only thing that makes it any difference is the prior knowledge that your previous body would be destroyed."

Exactly. To the new you, they'd be the real you. But YOU would be dead. The thing that makes your decisions, controls your body etc would be dead. Everything would end for you, and start for the other you which would be someone else.

I say again - if the original you wasn't deleted, you would NOT control both bodies. So what's controlling the clone? It's not you, that's for sure.

Don't you people believe in re-incarnation?