2014-02-18 3:35 GMT+01:00 meekerdb <[email protected]>: > On 2/17/2014 5:57 PM, David Nyman wrote: > > On 17 February 2014 20:15, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> But it is unambiguous under comp ex hypothesi: i.e. any classically >> adequate copy of me is equivalent to me. Under this hypothesis if I am >> duplicated both the resulting continuations are equivalent immediately >> posterior to duplication. Consequently I repeat my question: if *you* were >> duplicated in this manner, would you reasonably expect that either of the >> resulting equivalent continuations would experience a two-valued outcome? >> >> No, but as I said, that's regarding them as third persons. >> > > Well, the very logic of the hypothesis dictates that *both* > continuations inherit the first personal perspective of the original and > this will always be single-valued. But, as you said, there is an > ineliminable ambiguity because neither can record anything first-personal > that incorporates that third-personal doubleness. IOW it always seems as if > there is only one of me (1p) even in the case that I know there are two of > me (3p). Do you agree that this ambiguity is sufficient for step 3 to go > through? > > > You sound as though you want to sell me something. I have no interest > buying the argument one piece at a time or swallowing it all at once. I'm > interested in understanding it and it's consequences. >
It's seems to me that following the argument step by step is then the thing to do... and if you disagree with a step, explain why... or you can play John Clarck and have no real argument and stop there. Regards, Quentin > > Brent > > -- > 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. > -- All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer) -- 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.
