meekerdb wrote:
On 4/15/2015 4:51 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote:
That then leads to the questions of personal identity. As a person, my
consciousness changes from moment to moment with changing thoughts and
external stimuli, but I remain the same person. Can two spatially
distinct consciousnesses ever be the same person? I don't think so,
even if they stem from the same digital copy at some point. M-man and
W-man are different persons, and neither is the unique closest
continuer of H-man, so it is not that H-man is uncertain of his future
-- he doesn't have one.
This differs from MWI in that, in MWI, the continuers are in different
worlds.
Right. Like AI's in separate but identical worlds.
Don't you then run into the problem of the identity of indiscernibles?
The programs may be run on different computers in our world, and thus
discernible, but from inside the program there is only one
consciousness. Just the same as if you ran the program at different
times on the same computer. Same inputs --> same outputs. Not different
from the point of view of the simulation.
Bruce
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