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Episode 162: The Death of Identity

The problem of identity arises because we want to authorize an electronic agent to act on behalf of a human being. But the barrier between the physical world inhabited by the human being and the electronic world inhabited by the agent is completely impenetrable; all that passes across the barrier is images. Identity has focused on the question "how does the electronic agent satisfy itself as to the nature of the human being on the other side of the barrier?". And that is indeed very complicated. But the question "what is the nature of the electronic agent itself, and how many human beings' wills is it subservient to?" has hardly been addressed at all, and has never been answered. And without an answer to this question, identity cannot be relied upon.