> On 5 Oct 2015, at 5:14 AM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On 10/4/2015 12:21 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >> >> >> On 4 October 2015 at 07:31, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>>> On 10/3/2015 11:32 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >>>>> On 3 Oct 2015, at 5:02 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On 10/2/2015 8:52 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >>>>>> Remote copies are still copies. If a copy of you were made in the >>>>>> Andromeda Galaxy a billion years hence, it would still *by definition* >>>>>> think it was you despite being made of different matter, despite it >>>>>> being far removed in space and time, despite it possibly having no >>>>>> physical connection with you. >>>>> Yes, it would think so, but would it be right? In what sense is it >>>>> possible to right? >>>> I don't think the difficulty of verification invalidates the point I am >>>> making. A sceptical challenge could be mounted in everyday life - we could >>>> have false memories and false beliefs about ourselves. >>> >>> But we check those against the consistency of our environment, physics and >>> our friends - which I think is the crux of Bruce's idea that you have to >>> reproduce a big chunk of the surrounding world in order to get the kind of >>> continuity you need. >> >> Not really. If you unexpectedly found yourself in a weird environment, >> floating in a bubble in space with no recollection of how you got there for >> example, I think you would become anxious, theorise about how you might have >> got there and what might happen next, and so on. I can't imagine that your >> first thought would be that, with most normal environmental cues gone, you >> would forget who you were. > > Sure. But if you can find no causal explanation connecting your > circumstances to your memories you might well doubt your memories were > veridical, especially if you knew duplication of humans was possible.
But this doesn't mean that the sense of continuing as the same person is dependent on replicating the whole visible universe. -- 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.
