On 3/25/2014 6:34 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On 26 March 2014 12:15, meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[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.
But it will, at best be *similar* to the deceased "you", just as I am quite different from Brent Meeker of 50yrs ago. And there is no quarantee that some stream will continue.
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