> On 25 Jul 2019, at 07:16, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 7/24/2019 4:28 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> Note that the personal identity is not a transitive notion. Step 3 actually >>> illustrates well this. I recall he cut and copy itself from Helsinki (H) in >>> both Washington (W) and Moscow (M). With the definition of the personal >>> identity above, both the HW and the HM guy are, from that personal identity >>> view, the same person as the H person. >>> >>> With a more sensible notion of personal identity, the copies are different >>> persons, and different persons from the original. >> >> >> But that would entail that you die in step 1, which would again just be your >> opinion that mechanism is false. > > Why do you assume this is all-or-nothing, live-or-die?
Because digitalness makes it so. The copies are numerically identical at or below the substitution level. > What seems likely to me is that the copy will be necessarily different due to > information limitations of quantum mechanics… Quantum mechanics, nor any physics, is part of the assumption, except for the existence of a physical reality (but not necessarily an ontological existence). > but maybe not so different that one would still say yes to the doctor, > depending on the alternatives. Yes. There are the usual difference between our mental state, but the personal identity is defined by the ability to have our past experience memories, which by definition are conserved in the process. Bruno > > Brent > > -- > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/c95deaa2-d03e-0e65-472d-ad0154bef80e%40verizon.net > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/c95deaa2-d03e-0e65-472d-ad0154bef80e%40verizon.net?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/896441C8-1303-4EBD-8C1F-B140D540F4A9%40ulb.ac.be.
