On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 11:44:23AM -0500, Jason Resch wrote: > > Closest continuer theory is the "Copenhagen Interpretation" of personal > identity theory. A stop gap to preserve common sense notions in light of > paradoxes that imply the old way if thinking is untenable. > > As with quantum mechanics, common sense personal identity theories are forced > to either abandon any connection linking observer moments (like the zero > universe interpretation) or to a universalism that links all observers to a > single person (like many worlds). >
I never accepted that argument. Why couldn't there be islands in the space of observer moments separated by states of unconsiousness? In the classic thought experiment by Parfitt, what's to say that consciousness doesn't blink out after a certain number of neurons have been swapped for Napoleon's, and doesn't blink back into existence once Napoleon's brain is nearly complete? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow [email protected] Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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/20190726060732.GA17287%40zen.
