FAILURE TO RESPOND DIRECTLY TO THE TOPIC BELOW WILL RESULT IN A SCORE OF 0. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SIMPLY WRITE WHATEVER YOU WANT ON WHAT WE READ. THIS TOPIC IS HERE TO HELP YOU LEARN.
Instructions: You are to respond to the topic below using the ideas and concepts we have been discussing in this course. Your response should be between 200 and 300 words. You MUST cite something from within the course (textbook, course pages, discussions, etc.) AND another source you find from outside the course (the Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyLinks to an external site., the Internet Encyclopedia of PhilosophyLinks to an external site., another book, a journal – check out our library’s online resourcesLinks to an external site., Wikipedia, YouTube, a TV show, etc.) when crafting your response. You might want to write this in another application (Google Docs, Word, Notepad, etc.) and copy and paste it.
Paragraph #3 Topic:
The year is 2077 and your roommate just bought a brand new fancy human copy machine. They want to test it out, so they wait for you to fall asleep and put you in it. Here’s how it works: it splits your body exactly in half (top/bottom, so around the waste or stomach for most people), regrows the missing half to each of those, and then copies over the contents of the original brain into the newly grown one. The result is two identical copies of you, one with the original bottom half of your body and the other with the original top half. “You” wake up in the morning. Which one is you? Why? Why is the other one not you? Or why are they both you? Or why are neither of them you? What criteria are you using for identity? Why are you using that criteria and not some other criteria for identity? If you say anything about souls, how do they work in this situation? Why? You look at the clock and see you have to be at work in thirty minutes. Which one goes to work? Why? And finally, your roommate says, “Since there are two of you now, you have to pay for 2/3 of our apartment.” Is that fair? Why or why not?
(Make use of the course materials in crafting your answer.)
https://goldenwestcollege.libguides.com/az.php
https://plato.stanford.edu/
File attached below is the textbook
