> On 10 Sep 2020, at 03:58, spudboy100 via Everything List 
> <everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> 
> Apply this to your own very active philosophy. Let us say that "you" are 
> resurrected from the cold in the late 22nd century? The technicians of this 
> later age, state upon your awakening: "Mr. Clark, the way science advanced 
> over the years since your demise, demonstrated that to get you back to life, 
> the easiest track to achieve was to scan the cold preserved brain of one, 
> John Clark, and though the entire cortical data map of his life was 
> available, the way we do things, the only way currently, is to build him a 
> separate body, based on a very young clone of him, and transferred all data, 
> memories, etc.
> 
> Now, JC, is that clone, you??!! For me, it seems like it's Robert Nozick's, 
> Closest Continuer.

But what if the clone is duplicated?




> Physicist Sean Carroll would say that person wasn't you.


I guess you mean David Albert. Sean Carroll defends Everett, which use 
implicitly the first person mechanist indeterminacy. This is how he explains 
the appearance of the collapse, without collapse. (Then Everett still use 
physicalism, but that cannot work with mechanism where the wave itself must be 
recovered from the statistic on all computations, not just the quantum one).



> My own feeling is like Nozick's, which is best expressed by the old American 
> statement: "Close enough for government work.”

OK. But that is utilitarianism. You cannot be serious on this, or you are 
mixing religion/moral/ethics with politics and the state, which should not be 
done (in a democracy). Justice needs truth (or the honest research of the 
truth), but truth cannot be declared to be juste at will, that would be wishful 
thinking.



> 
> Now I simply must add this part in. "Mister Clark, we know that you have ever 
> been a loyal liberal, and pursuant to this knowledge, we must warn you that 
> the Earth is now the polity of Donald the Golden, recently, resurrected from 
> the infrared of the past light cone about earth's orbit. We have provided a 
> very nice residence on Mars Terrarium, Magnus Tharsis, where you will be 
> welcomed.  Unless, of course you choose to remain here, where you will have 
> the opportunity to kiss The Donald's ring!..  Armipotens dudum celebrari 
> praeter in Socialās ex timore! :-D

That is the main problem with Trump. His disdain for facts and for the search 
of truth. We can suppose he has some good reason to behave like this, and I 
guess they are not very pretty.

Bruno




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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com>
> To: everything-list@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Wed, Sep 9, 2020 7:01 am
> Subject: Re: Probability in Everettian QM
> 
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 4:40 AM Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be 
> <mailto:marc...@ulb.ac.be>> wrote:
> 
> > It has a perfectly clear referent,
> 
> If it were perfectly clear then why doesn't Bruno Marchal use the referent in 
> Bruno Marchal's thought experiments rather than a personal pronoun? John 
> Clark has been asking Bruno Marchal to do that for years but Bruno Marchal 
> absolutely refuses. 
> 
> > if you make precise if you talk about he first person “you” or about some 
> > third person view.
> 
> And as John Clark has been saying for years, if "you" is duplicated then 
> there is no longer such a thing as "THE first person" there is only "A first 
> person".
> 
> John K Clark
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