On 24 February 2014 08:09, Edgar L. Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > Stathis, > > This is just Sophistry that avoids the real question. Everyone of the > Stathis instantiations may well feel it is the real one, but why is the one > you are right now the one I am talking to? > > It could be anyone of them? Right? So why is it the one you think you are > right now? > > The only logical answer is because it is the one that coincides with the > present moment in which we are talking. Right? > > But the only way that can be true is if there is a real present moment that > selects the current Stathis. There is no logical way around that. There > absolutely has to be a selection mechanism that selects which Stathis you > experience yourself as, and that can only be the one in the current present > moment. > > Ten minutes ago you were that Stathis. Now you are this Stathis. Why the > change in which one you are? The only possible mechanism is a current > present moment, and that conclusively falsifies the block universe theory. > > There is simply no logical way around this... > > Why are you not the Stathis you were 10 minutes ago? Answer is because it is > NOT 10 minutes ago now. It is now now, and that now is what selects the > Stathis you are now....
It's not sophistry. I maintain that the reason I feel myself to be me, now, and not one of the other versions of me who may exist elsewhere in the multiverse is trivially obvious, in the same way as it is trivially obvious why I don't feel myself to be any of the other billions of people in the world. The inhabitants of China are not me, now even though they look a bit like me, now and their mental states are a bit like mine, now. The me, yesterday is not me, now even though he looks a bit like me, now and his mental state is a bit like mine, now. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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.
