On Thursday, June 18, 2015, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > > >> >>> "You" are the person reading this sentence >>> >>> >>> >> OK, but then it would be meaningless to talk about what "you" will do >>> tomorrow because "you" will not be reading that sentence tomorrow. So if >>> Stathis Papaioannou wants to talk about the future Stathis Papaioannou if >>> going to need a better definition of continuity; John Clark thinks a good >>> one would be the person (or people) who remember reading that sentence >>> right then, and in Many Worlds that would be lots and lots of people. >>> >> >> > There is an illusion that I am a unique individual persisting through >> time, >> > > How would things be different if it were not an illusion? It's silly to > try to explain consciousness by saying it's another subjective thing like > illusion unless it can be objectively explained how that illusion is > generated; I think the key to it is memory, if Stathis Papaioannou of today > remembers being Stathis Papaioannou yesterday then Stathis Papaioannou of > today gives Stathis Papaioannou yesterday the title "I". > > >> > even if I know that there will be multiple versions of me in future. I >> hope that I will become one of the versions with good experiences rather >> than bad experiences. >> > > But that implies that only one of those versions deserves the title of > "I", and that is untrue. >
And that's why it's an illusion. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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.
