On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
>> in general it's not true that they will >> >> perceiving different things >> >> , if you were the identical copy and in a symmetrical environment and >> facing your original the two of you would see identical things, and if your >> position was instantaneously exchanged with the original there would be no >> change in your consciousness or of that of the original, neither of you >> could even tell an exchange had occurred. So in that situation how could it >> make sense to talk of " >> >> two different consciousnesses" when there is clearly no difference >> between them? > > > > > And this shows that you agree (implicitly at least) that in the step 3 > case, the two identical bodies interact with quite different environment, > and get their consciousness bifurcating/differentiating. > Well of course I agree with that! One is conscious of Moscow and the other is conscious of Washington, how could anyone say that's not a difference, how could anyone say they're still identical? > > The "identical copies" > They were once identical but after seeing different cities they are now nonidentical copies. And yet both are the Helsinki man. And that is why establishing a personal sense of self can only come from remembering the past and never from trying to predict the future. > > could not predict the first person result of the differentiation. > Nobody and nothing will ever be able to predict "*THE* first person result of the differentiation" because after differentiation "*THE* first person result of the differentiation" is pure triple distilled extra virgin 100% gibberish. Nobody will ever be able to predict "sjhfhzbawhfd" either. John K Clark -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
