On 5/15/2014 9:13 AM, Dennis Ochei wrote:
Its pretty obvious that the naive notion cannot handle the split brain thought
experiment or ship of theseus.
But you don't know that those are possible.
Its also not obvious that a duplicate would be a new person.
It's just a semantic choice.
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.
Suppose someone made a duplicate of you. The duplicate claims to own your house, and goes
to court for possession. Do you think the court should not consider it meaningful that
one of you has physical continuity and the doesn't? How do you decide what's "meaningful"
and what isn't?
Brent
So the illusion is persistent, but i can see the seams.
On Thursday, May 15, 2014, meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[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
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