On 8/2/2019 1:06 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 1:40 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
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On 8/2/2019 11:03 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
> It is like Saibal Mitra said, the person he was when he was 3 is
> dead. Too much information was added to his brain. If his 3
year old
> self were suddenly replaced with his much older self, you would
> conclude the 3 year old was destroyed, but when gradual changes are
> made, day by day, common-sense and convention maintains that the
> 3-year-old was not destroyed, and still lives. This is the
> inconsistency of continuity theories.
On the contrary I'd say it illustrates the consistency of causal
continuity theories.
Your close friend walks into a black box, and emerges 1 hour later.
In case A, he was destroyed in a discontinuous way, and a new version
of that person was formed having the mind of your friend as it might
have been 1 hour later.
In case B, he sat around for an hour before emerging.
You later meet up with the entity who emerges from this black box for
coffee.
From your point of view, neither case A nor B is physically
distinguishable. Yet under your casual continuity theory, your friend
has either died or survived entering the black box. You have no way
of knowing if the entity you are having coffee with is your friend or
not. Is this a legitimate and consistent way of looking at the world?
Did the black box take A's information in order to copy him, or did it
make a copy accidentally.
Incidentally, my not knowing the difference between two things is not
very good evidence that they are the same.
Brent
Jason
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