I think war raged within Shen’s heart right at a key point of this.
I think to resolve resurrection, you may first have to resolve mind control. Because in cases like this, the person who is doing the resurrection is given mind control powers over the person who is dead. As a good example of this, I think I can regenerate most of the dilemma without any physical death at all:
Example: Assume that you and a loved one are the only people who can stop a terrible apocalypse. There is a mad scientist in the next room, the final obstacle to saving everyone. He has a ray gun that makes people simpletons.
Thankfully, there are two of you, and one of him. You’ve been planning strategies, and after discarding several that are distinctly suboptimal, here is your best bet:
1: You and your loved one enter the room, both begin aiming at the scientist.
2: The mad scientist fires his quicker simpleton gun, hitting one of you. The other one shoots the scientist, stopping him, and then stops the apocalypse.
3: However, the unhit person is left with the duty of reestablishing their loved one’s thought processes from a simpleton.
In this case, physical death doesn’t even seem to enter into it, and you still seem to have to resolve that feels to me like an incredibly similar set of conundrums, most of it focused on “Someone needs to rebuild someone else’s utility function, metautility function, etc… and you may be either of the two people in this scenario.”
I think war raged within Shen’s heart right at a key point of this.
I think to resolve resurrection, you may first have to resolve mind control. Because in cases like this, the person who is doing the resurrection is given mind control powers over the person who is dead. As a good example of this, I think I can regenerate most of the dilemma without any physical death at all:
Example: Assume that you and a loved one are the only people who can stop a terrible apocalypse. There is a mad scientist in the next room, the final obstacle to saving everyone. He has a ray gun that makes people simpletons.
Thankfully, there are two of you, and one of him. You’ve been planning strategies, and after discarding several that are distinctly suboptimal, here is your best bet:
1: You and your loved one enter the room, both begin aiming at the scientist. 2: The mad scientist fires his quicker simpleton gun, hitting one of you. The other one shoots the scientist, stopping him, and then stops the apocalypse. 3: However, the unhit person is left with the duty of reestablishing their loved one’s thought processes from a simpleton.
In this case, physical death doesn’t even seem to enter into it, and you still seem to have to resolve that feels to me like an incredibly similar set of conundrums, most of it focused on “Someone needs to rebuild someone else’s utility function, metautility function, etc… and you may be either of the two people in this scenario.”
Does that sound reasonable?