Dear Stathis, > The improbable thing is that the person should transition from the > state of buying a lottery ticket to winning the lottery, given the > much greater weight of non-winning tickets. Answering my own question, > the way this is different to asking why I was born me rather than one > of the far more numerous entities who aren't me is that there is no > primitive "me" spirit that can contemplate transitioning into every > possible corporeal form, so that I can then look back and wonder why I > didn't become one of the more common ones.
Well put explicitly!! And IMHO that is also why all variants of the doomsday argument fail. DA also only works if you had a transition into some civilization from a "civ spirit" - which obviously is not the case. Regards, Günther -- Günther Greindl Department of Philosophy of Science University of Vienna [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.univie.ac.at/Wissenschaftstheorie/ Blog: http://dao.complexitystudies.org/ Site: http://www.complexitystudies.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
