On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 7:08 AM Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 12:15 AM Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 2:42 PM Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> It's an imprecise and ad-hoc revision to the theory to preserve a >>> "singular identity" when the situation tells us the notion of a singular >>> identity is inconsistent and untenable. And just as quantum mechanics >>> undermined the idea of a single universe/history, QI was an imprecise and >>> ad-hoc revision added to preserve that notion. >>> >> >> I see. That is a rather judgemental approach to take. CI may have been >> ad hoc at the time, but recent developments in the understanding of Everett >> show that CI was not totally silly, after all (See Zurek >> arxiv:1807.02092. I see the closest continuer theory as a reasonable >> attempt to make sense of the notion of personal identity in a series of >> unusual scenarios. It makes little sense to say that these scenarios >> require that we throw out previous understandings of the idea. >> > > Sometimes new discoveries force this upon us. The flat earth, the > geocentric universe, an objective present, indestructible atoms, etc. > You have not discovered person duplication -- you have imagined it. Let us wait until it is actually possible before we jump to conclusions about what it might mean. > Here the motivation comes from non-dualistic theories of mind. If there > is not a magical soul that was breathed into your body, then there is no > longer an identity, as all matter and patterns are in theory copyable. > No, they are not all copyable. We do have no-cloning theorems in quantum mechanics. Besides, closest continuer theories are not dualistic. Bruce -- 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/CAFxXSLRRX2T4ioPVViuYFcvf3_6UeiwiVQmzn9bg98Yd%2B4QNew%40mail.gmail.com.
