On 9/12/2019 11:59 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 at 14:49, Bruce Kellett <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:... Your RSSA assumption is effectively a dualist model -- there is only one soul that makes you really you, and that soul goes at random into one and only one copy at any time. Then the chances that this soul-containing copy is the one that survives, does indeed decrease rapidly with age. But that is the wrong way to look at it -- there is no 'soul' that makes a copy you. On the MWI assumptions, every copy is 'you', so since at least one copy always survives, 'you' will always survive. The number of years you survive past age 100 is indefinitely large, so you spend more time in those years, and you have probability one of getting there.I would not call it dualism. There are many copies, but I am one and only one copy. I do not assume there is a “soul”, just a process that can reflect and say “hey, it’s me”. I don’t know which copy I am and it doesn’t matter. What matters, because it defines survival, is that there be an entity in the future that identifies as being me and remembers being me. Effectively, since I am a process rather than a persisting physical object, I die with every passing moment, and it is only the existence of such entities that identify as being me and remember being me that creates the illusion of survival. I die if no such entities exist anywhere or any time.
If the Stahis-here-and-now dies, then no entities remember being Stahis-here-and-now, but there may be ones that remember being Stahis-yesterday.
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