On 3/25/2014 6:49 PM, LizR wrote:
On 26 March 2014 14:45, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net
<mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote:
On 3/25/2014 6:34 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On 26 March 2014 12:15, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net
<mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> 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.
How does one work out what the upshot is, given an infinite number of identical yous?
Isn't there a measure problem or something?
There's your problem: There can't be even two identical yous (c.f. Leibniz). So there are
only a finite number of yous.
Brent
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