On 26 March 2014 12:45, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3/25/2014 6:34 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > 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. >
Similar is good enough. There is a guarantee that some branch will continue if everything that can happen does happen. -- 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.
