Re: Most Likely Forms of Immortality--and its Consequences

Jack Tingle wrote:
As the law is currently written, the clone certainly has rights. This
wacky idea would require four major things to happen:
1) Some one figure out how to 'read' an entire memory. We have no
inkling of how to do this.
2) Figure out how to 'write' said memory onto an immature brain. We have
even less of a clue about that. Note that they are definitely not the
same problem. Brains are not audiotape.
3) Change the laws to take away the rights of clones, without taking
away the rights of twins.
4) Change the current cultural perception that dying is personal, and
that the existence of a close twin (the clone with the upload) is 'just
as good'.

I think 4) is going to be the toughest one to overcome, assuming we
solve the mere technical difficulties of 1) and 2).

I don't think enough people have seriously pondered the issue that there
_is_ a "current cultural perception" on the matter. But I don't see it
as necessarily being that difficult to instill. After all, consider what
percentage of the world's population is Buddhist.

Three just requires
the repression of someone's rights, and the person involved can't speak
for themselves. History, alas, says 3) is easy.

There are still a lot of people vehemently opposed to abortion and
cruelty to animals, though, which fit those same criteria (for debatable
values of being 'someone' that are just as debatable for immature clones).
.

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