On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 4:06 PM Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 08:37, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 10:43 PM Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019, at 22:56, Bruce Kellett wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 3:53 AM Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 16 Sep 2019, at 05:51, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 9/15/2019 6:13 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> >>> And memory is fallible, and memory of age has no more meaning when your >>> age is bigger that the nameable or describable number, which happens very >>> soon, relatively, for the immortal being trying to keep track of their >>> birthday. >>> >>> Immortality is when you are to old to be able to even name your age. >>> After that, you have always the same age. >>> >>> >>> Nice aphorisms. But irrelevant. The question is why don't we see >>> almost everyone else as younger? >>> >>> >>> That happens when we are not old enough, but also, we might always >>> backtrack to younger people when close to death or when dying, … >>> >>> >>> What utter nonsense. You cannot jump between Everett branches, so you >>> cannot jump to a branch in which you were young. >>> >>> Depends on what you mean by "you". >>> >> >> I mean the person who has lived on this branch since birth. In every >> other branch in which copies exist, they occupy that space. So you can't >> simply "become" one of those copies on another branch -- what would happen >> to the one that was there? So you do not transfer memories or anything >> like. And you certainly can't become a younger copy of yourself. >> > > You can "jump" to any entity that is a continuation of your current mental > state, even if there is no causal connection. Having a persistent human > body that is in good shape is means of ensuring that such entities exist. > There is no actual "jumping", of course, even in ordinary life; it is just > an illusion. > That means that you certainly cannot become an earlier version of yourself, because that would not be a continuation of your current mental state. If you die, you might continue as a copy that was made at the instant of death, but nothing else could count as a continuation of your mental state. 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/CAFxXSLRxoP4RNOMdCwJDomrke3%2BSX6hg%3DtThgt0Sm3wGL7%2BKzw%40mail.gmail.com.
