On Nov 1, 2008, at 7:07 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: > We can ask how similar each one is to the Kory > that stepped into the teleporter, but there's no fact of the matter > about which one is *really* Kory.
I completely agree with that. But I don't agree with (and don't think the above implies) the following: > And there's no sense to the question > of what "I should expect to experience" because "I" is nothing but a > process of experiencing anyway. I don't know what to make of this response. Forget about teleporters and copying for a minute. Let's just talk about ordinary life. Even if I accept that the concept of "I" is a convenient fiction (and I essentially do, in some sense), I still mean *something* when I make a statement like "I expect to be still be sitting in this room one second from now", or "I just burned my finger and it's hurting, and I expect to still be feeling pain one second from now." Our considered views of personal identity might force us to translate those statements into something very different than what they seem, but they clearly still mean something. In this mundane sense, it's perfectly sensible for me to say, as I'm sitting here typing this email, "I expect to still be sitting in this room one second from now". If I'm about to step into a teleporter that's going to obliterate me and make a perfect copy of me in a distant blue room, how can it not be sensible to ask - in that mundane, everyday sense - "What do I expect to be experiencing one second from now?" -- Kory --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
