On Thu, Aug 6, 2015  smitra <[email protected]> wrote:

​> ​
> You can just define personal identity as a single observer moment, which
> includes any memories of the outcomes of the duplication experiments, so
> the string of the "W"'s and "M"'should be included in the definition of
> "you".
>

​OK​.

​> ​
> But there is not problem here if you just take the formal description of
> any conscious being as defining its personal identity.


​But if that definition of "you" is used then the question "What one and
only one city did you end up seeing?" has no answer because it is not a
question at all, it is just a sequence of ASCII characters the last of
which happens to be a question mark.

 John K Clark

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