On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Terren Suydam <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> If there is more than one then it would be very foolish to ask "what one >> and only one thing will *you* see after *you* become two?". >> > > > I'm not asking that. > Then what are you asking?? >> >> I don't know how to follow "*THE"* >> stream of consciousness >> and don't even know what it means because there are two not one. >> > > > > No, there is only one, even if there are infinite diverging copies. > Then which *ONE* out of that infinite number is "*THE"* stream of consciousness ? > > > You agreed earlier that you cannot experience more than one city at the > same time. > I don't know about Mr. You but Terren Suydam can experience more than one city at the same time if there are Terren Suydam duplicating machines. > > > Any other minds in other cities are not accessible to a copy. > So what? > This is the view from inside, the inner experience. There is only ever one > of them. > Terren Suydam just said a infinite number of copies were made, and every single one of them remembers wondering what one and only one city they would end up seeing. So what turned out to be the one and only one correct answer to the question asked yesterday "What city will I see tomorrow ?" If the answer isn't just unknown but is nonexistent then it wasn't a question. > > > You know this to be true: > I know it's true that everybody can only sees one stream of consciousness when looking from the present into the past, but the future behaves differently than the past, if they didn't they wouldn't need to have different names. And the question concerns the future not the past. > > > you may behave *as if* others are conscious, but you only ever know for > sure that one person is conscious. > That is part of our existence even today even without people duplicating machines. > > I believe that two people will say that they are John Clark, but I won't > have a clue if they are actually conscious or not. > Oh I think you'll have a clue, but at any rate I hope you don't believe the copy of me would be less likely to be conscious than the "original", but if you do believe that please explain what's so original about the original. 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.
