> On 26 Mar 2014, at 1:46 pm, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 3/25/2014 6:50 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >> >> >> >>> 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. > > That's a to casual reading of "can happen" there are many things in quantum > mechanics that can't happen. Just because we can imagine something > happening, it doesn't follow that it is nomologically possible.
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