On 04 Jul 2014, at 03:31, LizR wrote (to John Calrk)
Well, perhaps. I'm no so sure I'd be happy that there is a duplicate of me who's OK if I'm facing death. How about a duplicate who split off from you a week ago? Would you be happy to be murdered knowing that he was alive and well, and thinks he's you?
What if the duplicate split off millions years ago? Biological evolution implements our duplication since the beginning, arguably so.
John seems to have difficulties to complete the thought experience. He sees from outside that he is in both city, but fail to see that in both city the copies write "I see only one city", and that they are different, and that they could not have predicted it.
In fact, if you agree (with me and John (!)), that indeed our 1p are instantiated in both place (W and M), then you can understand that we are already the same person in that sense; we are the amoeba who became every plant and animals. But this will appears as a theological non justifiable truth, and also, it is not usable in physics/ prediction, which ask for precise prediction of experiment, like pushing a button, opening a door, and noting a place.
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