On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Monday, September 7, 2015, Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You will undergo the following experiment: >> >> 1. During the weekend you will be put to sleep with a drug and not be >> woken up until Monday. >> 2. On monday you will be woken up and asked what day it is. *How do you >> answer?* >> 3. You are then given a drug to put you to sleep again and also given a >> drug that induces amnesia of being woken up at all on Monday. >> 4. You are woken up on Tuesday, and asked what day it is. *How do you >> answer?* >> >> *If asked to ascribe a probability to it being Monday when you are woken >> up, how do you answer on either of the days you are awoken?* >> >> (I am particularly interested in John Clark's answer to the final >> question) >> > > This is like being teleported into either Monday or Tuesday. > It is. It duplicates the same conscious state. However, it does not duplicate the person so it avoids the problems John Clark cites as a reason for not answering the question at hand. > I'd say there's a 1/2 chance of finding yourself in either Monday > or Tuesday when you wake up. > I agree. > Someone else might answer that there is not really a "you" any more as > there are two branches, so the question is meaningless. > I don't see why there is no more you. There is a single continuation/stream of consciousness. It just happens to run over the same state more than once. Jason > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
