LizR wrote:
On 8 April 2015 at 05:41, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com
<mailto:johnkcl...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 11:44 PM, Stathis Papaioannou
<stath...@gmail.com <mailto:stath...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> you feel that you are the same person from day to day
and year to year, even if you know this is an illusion.
> > How would things be different if this were not an illusion?
> You are less the "same person" compared to your self from a
year ago than you are compared to a copy of you that might exist
in the next room.
I have no argument with that, I think it's certainly true, but how
is that an illusion?
Surely the illusion is that you are the same person?
Perhaps physical continuity is what we currently mean by being the 'same
person'. In which case, duplication scenarios in AI are going to cause
identity problems. But, as Brent says, the environment is always active
on our brains, so even if duplicated, the copies rapidly become
/different/ persons.
Bruce
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