> -----Original Message----- > From: Marchal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Perhaps. But if you do that move, everyone is resurrected in > everyone, and > there is only one person in the multiverse. I don't know. James Higgo > was more radical on this, he defended the idea of zero person. > With just comp this issue is probably undecidable. I guess > comp (perhaps > QM too) can lead to a vast variety of incompatible but > consistent point of > view on those matter. Comp is compatible whith a lot of personal > possible interpretations of what is identity. What is > possible to prove > with comp is the non normative principle according to which personal > identity is *in part* necessarily a matter of personal opinion. > What remains to do is to compute the "real" probabilities to > backtrack with > amnesia compare to the probability to quantum/comp-survive > big injuries. > I doubt we have currently the tools to do those computations.
I will be interested to know the results when you do! Of course the doctrine of reincarnation (it always seemed to me) only requires one soul - a bit like Feynman's one-electron universe, it just zip-zags back and forth... Charles
