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Originally Posted by whswhs
A useful exercise, and an interesting one—interesting for me, at least, though I would treat the results as metaphysical fantasy—would be for you to work out all the implications of defining identity purely as pattern similarity, and giving zero weight to worldline continuity. What kind of legal system could be based on that? What sort of religion or philosophy could assume it? What sort of sense of self would you have? And—what sort of beings might find it intuitively more plausible than a worldline continuity model?
Bill Stoddard
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I think the legal system would actually be more robust. For instance, it wouldn't break down when an infomorph kills someone, then transfers to another chassis to break the worldline continuity.