On Sun, 9 Feb 2020 at 15:43, Bruce Kellett <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > Basically there are two theories if personal identity: the magical soul theory, which holds that your soul only goes into one body, and the reductionist theory, which holds that your mind is copied along with your body and each copy has equal claim to being a continuation of the original. > -- 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%3D2ypX6Hh-33OHsiDGzudR%2BcvSKSebaKstD2XKQ4C046HFUhA%40mail.gmail.com.
