Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > 2009/2/10 Jack Mallah <jackmal...@yahoo.com>: > > >> This sort of talk about "random sampling" and "luck" is misleading and is >> exactly why I broke down the roles of effective probability into the four >> categories I did in the paper. >> >> If you are considering future versions of yourself, in the MWI sense, there >> is no randomness involved. Depending on how you define "you", "you" will >> either be all of them, or "you" are just an observer-moment and can consider >> them to be "other people". Regardless of definitions, this case calls for >> the use of Caring Measure for decision making. >> > > It seems that the disagreement may be one about personal identity. It > is not clear to me from your paper whether you accept what Derek > Parfit calls the "reductionist" theory of personal identity. Consider > the following experiment: > > There are two consecutive periods of consciousness, A and B, in which > you are an observer in a virtual reality program. A is your > experiences between 5:00 PM and 5:01 PM while B is your experiences > between 5:01 PM and 5:02 PM, subjective time. A is being implemented > in parallel on two computers MA1 and MA2, so that there are actually > two qualitatively identical streams of consciousness which we can call > A1 and A2. At the end of the subjective minute, data is saved to disk > and both MA1 and MA2 are switched off. An external operator picks up a > copy of the saved data, walks over to a third computer MB, loads the > data and starts up the program. After another subjective minute MB is > switched off and the experiment ends. > > As the observer you know all this information, and you look at the > clock and see that it is 5:00 PM. What can you conclude from this and > what should you expect? To me, it seems that you must conclude that > you are currently either A1 or A2, and that in one minute you will be > B, with 100% certainty. Would you say something else? > I might say that while there are two computations, there is only one "stream of consciousness".
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