On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 07:33:42PM -0500, Jason Resch wrote: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Russell Standish > <[email protected]>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 :). -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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.
