On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 07:33:42PM -0500, Jason Resch wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Russell Standish 
> <li...@hpcoders.com.au>wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 06:02:14PM -0500, Jason Resch wrote:
> > > Across the many worlds you will find a nearly continuous spectrum of
> > > persons from those just like you to those like someone else, and
> > everything
> > > in between.  Any suggestion of a discrete border that defines where Brent
> > > ends and someone else begins would be completely arbitrary.
> > >
> > > Jason
> >
> > This is what Parfitt argues in his Napoleon thought experiment. I
> > don't agree that this is at all obvious. It seems likely to me
> > that there are vast gulfs of non-conscious configurations in between
> > say you and me, without there being a continuous path linking us in
> > the Multiverse.
> 
> 
> If there is anything in reality that knows what it is like to be you, and
> knows what it is like to be me, then we are both it.
> 

That seems a big "if".

> 
> 
> > In such a case, universalism makes no sense.
> >
> >
> 
> I think the evolution of a person which eventually leads to all possible
> states is only one of the arguments in support universalism.  

What is this evolution you speak of?

> Other
> arguments exist, which are well articulated in Arnold Zuboff's "One self:
> The logic of experience".
> 
> Jason
> 

OK - I've downloaded this paper and added it to my backlog. Will
peruse sometime in the next 5 years :).


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