On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 3:26 PM Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9 Feb 2020, at 13:42, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > No. For to make such a guess would be to assume a dualist model of > personal identity: viz., that I have an immortal soul that is not > duplicated with my body, but assigned at random to one of the duplicates. I > do not believe this, nor do I believe that any concept of probability is > relevant to your presumed scenario. > > > Strange that you should say that, since in the philosophical literature > (eg. Derek Parfit) the position you describe as dualist is called > “reductionist”, assuming there is no soul and the mind is duplicated along > with the body. Anyway, you would not do well if you assumed this in a world > where duplication occurred commonly. If you were rewarded if you bet > correctly and punished if you bet incorrectly, the world would come to be > dominated by people who assume in the above scenario they have a 99.9% > chance of finding themselves at A. > They may end up dominating -- but possibly that is only because, by construction, there are more going to A. As with Bruno's W/M duplication, there is an unresolved question of personal identity at stake here, and your solution is not necessarily correct. 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/CAFxXSLQ%2B68FeagEQJQduieCYjH3azFMyzKO68Oupxorh7e%3DhWQ%40mail.gmail.com.
