On 12/10/2019 5:59 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
There is. It is what you can expect to feel when doing the experience. In Helsinki, you believe that you will survive (because you believe in Mechanism, say), and you know with certainty that you will bring a cup of coffee, because this has been promised by both the Washingtonians and the Moscowians. But for that same reason, you know in Helsinki that both copies will have incompatible first person experience, as none will feel to drink Russian and American coffee simultaneously. So in H, you know that (always assuming Mechanism of course) whatever happens, you will feel to find yourself in one city, and you know that it is impossible in Helsinki to write its name in the first person diary (the one embarked in the annihilation-copy box).
Aside from the silly back and forth over pronouns, I wonder how the copies in Moscow and Washington can believe they were the man in Helsinki? Of course the easy answer is they remember being the man in Helsinki. But given this copying ability, they could have been given false memories of being in Helsinki, and in fact they cannot be made of the same atoms as the Helsinki man. So maybe there was no Helsinki man and their "memories" are just fictions. Are they then conscious of things that never happened?
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