On 14 xxx -1, Marchal wrote:
> OK, so you agree that a computationalist could, in case it is
> technologically feasible, use teletransport to "move" herself.
> Remember that the "original" is destroyed, and "reconstituted" elsewhere.
>
> I guess you agree that if someone survives teletransport, she will still
> survives teletransport in case of multiple and independent
> reconstitutions.
>
> Now, you were saying that the "entrenched trivial" errors concerns the
> measure issue.
>
> Could you tell me if there is already an "entrenched trivial error" for
> those who believes, like myself, that if people tell us in advance that
> there will be multiple reconstitutions, then, before teletransportation,
> their "immediate" futur is undetermined ?
>
> This is what I like to call Mechanist or Computationnalist Indeterminism.
> So my question is "do you believe in Mechanist Indeterminism ?".
The situation you described is completely deterministic, much like
the MWI of QM.
For all practical purposes, a person who is copied should expect
their future selves to be effectively randomly chosen.
If you want to talk about what is actually going on though, I
don't even accept that 'individual identity' carries over from one time
step of a computation to the next. It's just that the future self or
selves are sufficiently similar to the current self to motivate an
interest in his (or their) well being.
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