On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 4:16 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: >> Who's personal experience? >> > > > Bruno makes it clear that he only considers what someone writes in a > diary as being what counts for the purposes of the thought experiment. > (This is obviously a proxy for memory in most situations, but it simplifies > matters so we don't get confused about what he is talking about.) >
If the machine is sophisticated enough to duplicate the human brain and all the memories it contains then duplicating the diary would be child's play. > he MWI turns the universe into a matter duplicating machine. But very special type of duplicating machine where the laws of physics forbid anyone from observing any of the duplicates that the machine has made, so the personal pronoun "you" never causes ambiguity. John K Clark > > The way to identify the "who" in the above question is thus "whoever is > reading his own diary at a given moment". This is the same idea as the > notes in Fred Hoyle's pigeonholes in the marvellous "October the First is > too late". Hence "identity" is constructed from "notes" or "diary entries" > or memories at any given moment. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
