On 01 Aug 2014, at 21:50, John Clark wrote:
Daughter: Mommy, mommy! Why wasn't I born beautiful and lucky like
Kim Kardashian?
Mother: Because you were born ugly my dear; you see she didn't
become Kim Kardashian and then get born beautiful, she was born
beautiful and so became Kim Kardashian. And do not underestimate the
power of freewill, gibberish can have a powerful effect on the weak
minded, just look at religion.
Daughter: But how does it work
Mother: You are in a particular branch of the multiverse and the
computations which support you cannot be predicted. I'm afraid you
are where you are until you die.
Daughter: Mommy likes pronouns with no clear referent.
Mother: Of course I do my dear, philosophy would be lost without
such words.
Daughter: So if I die It seems I might go on as Kim Kardashian?
Mother: No my love because you don't remember being Kim Kardashian
Daughter: so why, oh why am I not her right now???
Mother: That's the First Person Indeterminacy, my dear.
Daughter: The what???
Mother: The FPI, it's a pretentious way of saying that nobody knows
what they will see or do next, and just like philosophers I love
being pretentious. Everyone, even infants, understand it but some
people pretend it's something new and profound and for that reason
some people hate it for being so mundane
That is propaganda, as FPI is not at alla what you describe above, and
you know it well, as we can deduce from preview reply.
You might answer the question I asked you instead. I recall:
> a rather systematic confusion of first person and third person.
Oh yes, the world is full of people who are confused by the
extremely subtle difference between the words "I" and "him".
You are confuse on this, when you avoid to listen to the copies when
using "I" and "him".
What do you say to HWWMWMMMW-John Clark, (in an iterated version of
the protocol of step 3), who tell you this:
"Come on John, I did predict "all stories/sequences", but I can't
neglect that when I actually did the experience, each time I get a
precise result, W, or M, and without any clue of what will happen at
the next duplication, I think I grasp what the guy was talking about".
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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