On 14 May 2014, at 06:05, Dennis Ochei wrote:
Under Daniel Kolak's open individualism there exists one numerically
distinct person who is everyone at all times. What I want to explore
is the implications of this theory for a self interested individual.
For those unfamiliar with Open Individualism, you might instead
imagine a demon appears to you, and informs you that after you die
you will experience what it is like to be every person that ever
lived.
I think that is consitent, and perhaps true with comp, but perhaps not
communicable, so, like many good religious idea, to present them can
be too much, and prevent people to discover that by themselves.
It would be a proposition belonging to G* minus G. What can be
justified, is that if comp is true then it follows.
The only rational course of action seems to be to maximize utility
across lives. Meaning if $1 will buy you in your current life 1 unit
of utility, but would afford another person 10 units, it would be
rationally self interested to donate the money, if you expect to
experience what they shall experience. This is essentially Singer's
Effective Altruism at work. Are there any other rational courses of
action if Open Individualism is true (or if the hypothetical demon
appeared) and one is self interested?
When amoebas does that, it gives mold, mixomycete.
I am not sure, because it depends what people do with the money, and
with the short term, middle term, long term conflicts.
Social amoebas lives a selfish life until they starve, and then they
make sacrifice and assure the next generations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h8WOWEqP6o
"We are all the same person" is close to spoiling the end of the
movie, somehow.
And which "we"? I assume you take all living creatures in arithmetic
from the jumping spider to "divinities" (non computable sets, oracles).
But OK, the arithmetical hypostases describes an abstract ideally
correct machines instanciated into its infinitely many variants or
extensions. It is a universal person. But with different beliefs and
experiences, and that has its role too.
It is a process of recognition. I recognize myself in PA and ZF, in
some sense.
Bruno
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