2017-09-05 21:49 GMT+02:00 Terren Suydam <terren.suy...@gmail.com>: > > > On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 1:25 PM, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Terren Suydam <terren.suy...@gmail.com> >> 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. >> >> > Good. Now let's add a twist. In Helsinki, you're told that you'll be > merely teleported to Barcelona, as before. However, unbeknownst to you, a > duplicate of you will also be created in Paris. > > This creates a situation where depending on your perspective - > first-person or third-person - the question of where you expect to be > duplicated is either straightforward or gibberish. From the first-person > perspective, it's the same answer as before - Barcelona. From the > third-person, I think you have to say it's gibberish to be consistent. > > Agree? >
Do you think if we reveal to JC that since he was born he has been duplicated everyday unbeknown to him and his doppelgangers have been killed everytime that it would change JC behavior and he would be less trolling ? It would be fun to see him not ever again use the indexical "I" pronouns which he seems to have the most difficulties to grasp to whom it refers... > -- > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. (Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer) -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
