On Sat, 14 Sep 2019 at 06:38, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 9/12/2019 11:59 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > > On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 at 14:49, Bruce Kellett <[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. > If I have an episode of amnesia, then effectively that version of me dies, while the version of me prior to the period of amnesia survives. > -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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/CAH%3D2ypWFX7ZHV9OzfOTu0inePEHQ4n5QRHckL5jE6aKAGSY0LA%40mail.gmail.com.
