On 04 Sep 2017, at 19:25, John Clark wrote:
On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Terren Suydam
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Right now I'm only concerned with the present, the ongoing
flow of experience. It doesn't sound like you have any issue with
the idea that someone who gets physically reconstituted would
experience consciousness normally, save for discontinuities like the
room changing color from red to blue. If this seems obvious,
that's good, it means we are starting from a place of agreement.
Of course I agree, there is nothing special about the atoms in my
brain, only the way that the atoms are arranged is unique, and that
uniqueness signifies nothing fundamental or philosophical, it's just
the result of the present day limitations of engineering technology.
I am quite literally not the man I once was, new atoms are
constantly coming into my body and old atoms going out. I am made of
last years mashed potatoes, and yet subjectively I remain the same
person, or at least I think I do and that's good enough for me.
Very good. But then apply this to the copies. They both say that the
reconstitution has been enough good for them, and both agree that
among the W and the M experiences, they live only one of them, and
that they could not have figure out which one before the duplication,
or before the next duplication.
Not listening to the copies is equivalent with eliminating the first
person, which is of course a bit problematic when we study the
relations between first person discourses and third person descriptions.
Bruno
John K Clark
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