On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 11:11 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/19/2013 12:30 AM, Jason Resch wrote: > > Amnesia = gap in the chain. >> > > > Memories are not a necessary requirement for experience and thus are not > a requirement for subjective continuation and survival. You survive despite > forgetting things, or being in a meditative state not drawing on any past > memories. > > > You're talking about long term memories. If you lost ALL memories I don't > think you would be the same person. > You woke up this morning as Brent Meeker, emerging from the null conscious state to a barely awake one, and eventually a fully awake Brent Meeker. Someone with no memories may not be the same person by our normal definitions of personhood, but they may become any person (who emerges in a similar way as a human does awaking from sleep, or developing in an embryo). > Having experiences is not necessarily the same as being Jason Resch. > Jason Resch is a label that can be applied to some experiences, but when you try to find the borderline where you can no longer apply this label you will find only confusion. > > > > > >> >> >> branching, etc. Any state eventually leads to every other state. >> >> >> Sounds like wishful thinking. >> >> > I will accept that when you can point to a computational state not > reachable from some other arbitrary computational state. > > > Anartica is reachable from California, but that doesn't mean I'm going > there. > But such a path that exists, and in the case that all paths are explored (comp/mwi), then in all your travels through the many-worlds/many-dreams, some fraction of the time, you will get to Antarctica from California. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
