Its pretty obvious that the naive notion cannot handle the split brain thought experiment or ship of theseus. Its also not obvious that a duplicate would be a new person. There is no such thing as the original particles, all like particles are indistinguishable. Furthermore, the replication can be done semiconservatively, where each of the resultant persons get half the particles of the original, rendering the question moot. Lastly, whether you are the original or the replica is a completely epiphenomenal distinction. It isnt physically meaningful.
So the illusion is persistent, but i can see the seams. On Thursday, May 15, 2014, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/14/2014 11:32 PM, Dennis Ochei wrote: > > I'm deeply conflicted. On one had I want the illusion but i also want to > act in accordance with the truth. > > > Ah, there's your problem. "The truth" is likely unknowable. "The > illusion" is what's knowable - so why denigrate it? > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/everything-list/S5Qi3Q_2TTI/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','everything-list%[email protected]');> > . > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > . > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- 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.
