On 26 March 2014 12:15, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > > An infinite universe (Tegmark type 1) implies that our consciousness >> flits about from one copy of us to another and that as a consequence we are >> immortal, so it does affect us even if there is no physical communication >> between its distant parts. >> > > That seems to imply that one's consciousness is unique and moves around > like a soul. >
There's no dodgy metaphysical mechanism involved. If there are multiple physical copies of you, and each copy has a similar consciousness to you, then you can't know which copy is currently generating your consciousness. > I think the idea is that the "stream of consciousness" is unified so long > as all the copies are being realized identically, in fact they are not > "multiple" per Leibniz's identity of indiscernibles. When there is some > quantum event amplified enough to make a difference in the stream of > consciousness then the stream divides and there are two (or more) streams. > An implication of this is that if one of the streams terminates your consciousness will continue in the other. -- 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/d/optout.
