On 2/19/2013 1:49 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:35 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net
<mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote:
On 2/18/2013 10:49 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
4. In the course of normal life, we gain memories (through experience) and
lose
memories (by forgetting). Yet most feel they are still the same person.
This
allows for some interesting experiments with a "faulty teleporter". You
step into
the teleporter and it transports you, but it is not 100% and your resulting
copy
has lost some small fraction of his long term memories. It has also given
you new
memories for things you never actually experienced. You comfort yourself
with the
idea that this is no different than living life and assert you are still
the same
person. Two very similar twins, Alice and Alicia each use this teleporter
at the
same time. Alice and Alicia both steps into it and on the recieving end of
the
teleporter, Alice and Alicia step out. But what really happened is Alice
gained
and lost some memories and is now identical to the Alicia who stepped into
the
teleporter, and the Alicia gained and lost some memories and is now
identicial to
the Alice who stepped into the teleporter. Is this any different from the
two of
them entering a closet and the two of them coming out? If not, couldn't
they be
switching places all the time, each always in the other?
No, because they occupy different locations and will within milliseconds
develop
different experiences, e.g. Alice looks at Alicia, but Alicia isn't looking
at Alice.
Consider the case in the absence of alicia. Alice steps into the teleporter, and comes
out a little different, but nonetheless she considers herself to have survived.
Consider the case in the absence of alice. Alicia steps into the teleporter, and comes
out a little different, but nonetheless she considers herself to have survived.
Now if they both step into two different teleporters, where Alice steps into the A1 ->
A2 teleporter, and Alicia steps into the B1->B2 teleporter. When Alice comes out of B2,
and Alicia comes out of A2, who is who? What is the first person experience like?
?? Alice is Alice and Alicia is Alicia. I don't know what it's like to be teleported, but
I'm not exactly the same as I was yesterday (another day older and deeper in debt).
Brent
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