Superimmortality’s solution to the non identity problem
The non identity problem
The “Non-Identity Problem” is a philosophical puzzle showing that actions affecting future people can seem wrong even if they don't harm anyone, because the people who exist in the "worse" scenario wouldn't have existed at all otherwise, meaning they aren't made "worse off" than they would have been. It questions the morality of choices (like environmental policy or reproductive decisions) where changing the action creates different individuals, making it hard to say anyone is harmed, yet we feel the action was wrong. Solutions involve rejecting core intuitions, like that harm requires being worse off, or accepting that an act can be wrong without harming anyone specifically, impacting debates on policy, genetics, and ethics.
This supposed problem assumes that a person has only one opportunity to exist even if that one life or awarepath turns out to be an awful life. This life can be with terrible pain or a disability. The science of superimmortality predicts that there are many different conscious versions of a person (awarepaths) that have the same ixperiencitness. These different versions will be very diffrent in the quality of life they produce. If you think that you have only one life to live you may want to experience that life no matter how aweful that life is. Many people would prefer to suffer some pain and suffering in their life rather than to not ever exist at all. Or frequently people will suffer at the end of their life rather than dying sooner with less pain. this is often true because of a fear that sucide will put then in hell forever.
If you know that there can be many potential conscious versions of you that can exist throughout space and time that can have better lives there is no reason to deliberately produce a awful conscious version of yourself. Nor is there a good reason to produce an awful conscious version of a loved one. Maybe there is a reason to produce a difficult life for someone you dislike or hate. But it will take a great deal of knowledge to determine the ixperiencitness that a body produces and you could always get it wrong and just make a random person life needlessly awful.
Most human will have at least a percentage wise identical ixperiencitnesses. In the end it is better to produce better versions of everyone’s conscious lives. If there is a need to produce a handicapped person then maybe wait until there are solutions to this handicap so that the person can decide for himself if he wants to experience this conscious lifetime or not.
