I’m interested. As a question of terminal value, and focusing only on the quality and quantity of life of me and my copies, I’d value copies’ lives the same as my own. Suppose pick-axing for N years is the only way I can avoid dying right now, where N is large enough that I feel that pick-axing is just barely the better choice. Then I’ll also pick-ax for N years to create a copy.
For what it’s worth, I subscribe to the thread philosophy of identity per se, but the pattern philosophy of what Derek Parfit calls “what matters in survival”.
I’m interested. As a question of terminal value, and focusing only on the quality and quantity of life of me and my copies, I’d value copies’ lives the same as my own. Suppose pick-axing for N years is the only way I can avoid dying right now, where N is large enough that I feel that pick-axing is just barely the better choice. Then I’ll also pick-ax for N years to create a copy.
For what it’s worth, I subscribe to the thread philosophy of identity per se, but the pattern philosophy of what Derek Parfit calls “what matters in survival”.