On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 12:31 PM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The 1p-you is defined by the sequence of memories personally accessible > That does not define a unique object if the world contains 1p-you duplicating machines as it does in your thought experiment , therefore it is nonsensical to ask what one and ony one thing will "you" see or feel. If you claim the 1p-you can not be duplicated then there must be some subjective difference between the two, but we know there is not because they can't ever tell which one they are, the copy or the original. > > > like the personal diary > If the 1p-you can be duplicated ( and can be because there is no way to know if "you" are the copy or the original because both have identical subjective experiences) then it can certainly duplicate a diary. That's why the entire diary business is so dumb. > > > *I remind you that your argument that in the two situations the > doppelgängers have different chance to meet, is not relevant, or just add > in the thought experience that someone has build a an unbridgeable wall > between Washington and Moscow.* > If the laws of physics work the way we think they do then I can never meet my Everett style doppelganger even in principle, but I can if my doppelganger was made in a 1p-you duplicating machine as it was in your thought experiment. A thing like a unbridgeable wall between Washington and Moscow is tantamount to postulating a new law of physics, and there is no evidence such a law exists or any reason to even suspect that it does in order to explain experimental results. So in summary if physics were different then you could be right, but it isn't and you're not. 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.
