Ethical issues aside, this is a serious investment of resources for a scheme that I would expect is even less effective against the target than it would be against normal people.
Most of the time when we aiming at the question of a diffuse sense of self, we are talking about simulations of an individual. This is important, because the whole mechanism turns on the fact that as the simulation gets better, our confidence that we aren’t the simulation gets weaker.
Cloning has no such mechanism. What you are proposing is like kidnapping and torturing one twin to get at the other, where the twins were separated at birth and had no prior relationship. Why would that work?
Ethical issues aside, this is a serious investment of resources for a scheme that I would expect is even less effective against the target than it would be against normal people.
Most of the time when we aiming at the question of a diffuse sense of self, we are talking about simulations of an individual. This is important, because the whole mechanism turns on the fact that as the simulation gets better, our confidence that we aren’t the simulation gets weaker.
Cloning has no such mechanism. What you are proposing is like kidnapping and torturing one twin to get at the other, where the twins were separated at birth and had no prior relationship. Why would that work?