On Sat, 14 Sep 2019 at 14:30, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 9/13/2019 3:12 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > > 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. > > > According to MWI there are different versions of you who have survived > consciousness changing events yesterday, last week, last year, > But they are not the continuation of my present self. If I have a drug like midazolam, I will have amnesia for an hour or two, and if I am aware that this will happen it will be equivalent to anticipating my death. -- 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%3D2ypXFCBhXUGZome1sQzc0%2B%2BF15xjCeDzm1eEQjm8k72%3DQhg%40mail.gmail.com.
