On 8/3/2016 4:09 PM, smitra wrote:
On 04-08-2016 00:12, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
Only if you wake up and find out winning the lottery was a mistake,
which seems less likely than waking up a winner. Waking up as one of
the many copies who didn't win is not one of the options - those
copies are not continuations of the you who won the lottery.
I'm imagining waking up after a night of heavy drinking with memories
gradually returning. Now, you can, of course, condition everything on
the person who will find that he won the lottery. But making that a
hard part of my identity doesn't make sense to me, otherwise you could
not be the same person and forget about it, or consider being the same
person who participated in the lottery who then went on to win it.
Now,while this boils down to an arbitrary definition of personal
identity, we should be consistent about this; you can be the same
person as the won who had not yet won it, and you could imagine being
a person who did not win it, then you'll likely end up waking up as a
copy in another branch who did not win it.
That seems to invoke a dualism, such that there's only one real "you"
who may be in different branches at different times. I'd say that if
"you" wake up as a copy in another branch where "you" didn't win, it's
because "you" didn't win. It's the same as saying the man who sees
Moscow didn't "wake up" as the man who sees Washington.
Brent
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