On 15 May 2014 15:43, Dennis Ochei <[email protected]> wrote: > You can still care if you die normally but something like the swampman > thought experiment is just as good as ordinary survival under Parfit's > view, which a reductionist I feel is forced to accept. You care that you > keep experiencing but there is no self to be found that persists. > Destructive uploading or teletransportation preserve everything worth > preserving. That you are what once was is purely an illusion. Naive closed > individualism reveals itself as deeply flawed when subjected to thought > experiments.Unless you subscribe to Kolak's view you can't redeem the idea > that you are in any sense the same consciousness that you remember being >
I don't know about "in any sense". If you identify yourself as your current state of consciousness then undoubtedly you can't step into the same river twice, but if you identify yourself with your memories then there is some partial sameness between me now and myself this morning that doesn't exist between me and anyone else. (Of course, Leonard Shelby would probably disagree...) -- 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.
