On 10/19/2013 10:15 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 11:11 AM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net
<mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> 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,
And why should be adopt non-normal definitions of personhood? and what would
those be?
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.
And the border between Mexico and Texas is indefinite at the atomic level. That doesn't
mean there's no Mexico and no Texas.
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
All things follow from a false premise.
Brent
(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
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