On 2/16/2014 2:15 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
But of course if you're trying to ascertain the nature of personal identity none of
this matters, it doesn't matter if the predictions were correct or not.
We are not trying to ascertain the nature of personal identity at all. I can be amnesic
on who I am for example. the question is about the expectation of some unique 1p
experience I will live soon. By comp I know that it must be W, or M, but not both, nor none.
But that's the ambiguity I see. When you ask the H-man, "Where do you think you will be?"
he has to provide some interpretation to the word "you". My immediate, intuitive thought
was, "I expect to be in both places." Which depends on what is meant by "I". If "I" is
just conscious experience then there are two "I"s and neither is the H-man because they're
not experiencing Helsinki. So "I" must be experiences and memory. Then the M-man and the
W-man are both "I" the H-man, in which case the H-man should answer "Both".
Brent
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