On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 2:23 PM Tomas Pales <litewav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Monday, February 28, 2022 at 2:48:48 PM UTC+1 Jason wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, Feb 27, 2022, 11:43 AM Tomas Pales <litew...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> Since reality is a mess of everything possible we might expect that the >>> regularities (laws) of our world may change or disappear any second, which >>> apparently doesn't happen. >>> >> >> Or you don't remember it happening: >> >> "When we die, the rules surely change. As our brains and bodies cease to >> function in the normal way, it takes greater and greater contrivances and >> coincidences to explain continuing consciousness by their operation. We >> lose our ties to physical reality, but, in the space of all possible >> worlds, that cannot be the end. Our consciousness continues to exist in >> some of those, and we will always find ourselves in worlds where we exist >> and never in ones where we don’t. The nature of the next simplest world >> that can host us, after we abandon physical law, I cannot guess." >> >> -- Hans Moravec in “Simulation, Consciousness, Existence” (1998) >> >> https://frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/general.articles/1998/SimConEx.98.html >> > > I am not sure that my consciousness would continue to exist in a different > world after it ended in this one. A copy of me might continue in another > world but it wouldn't be me, just someone who looks like me and has the > same history as me until the point of my death. > > 1. If you lose consciousness tonight and wake up in bed the next morning, despite being in a different time, place, and slightly different atomic make up via metabolism, have you survived and is it still you? (why or why not?) 2. If you are resuscitated after falling into a frozen lake and drowning after 40 minutes have you survived death, would it still be you? (why or why not?) 3. If half of your head is blown up in a lab accident, and advanced medical technology restores you to your original self by healing your wounds and replacing missing tissues have you survived? (Does it matter to your survival whether your original body's atoms are used in the reconstruction?) (why or why not?) 4. If you are transported in a destructive teleportation machine which breaks down and scans you at a molecular level and reassembles you on Mars, have you survived? (why or why not?) 5. If your mind is uploaded into a computer, which lasts until near the heat death of the universe, and some compassionate aliens in another universe having vastly more computational resources than our own, which simulated our universe from the big bang until the heat death, chose to copy your uploaded mind state at the time of the heat death into their own universe so that it could continue, have you survived? (why or why not?) I am interested at which numbered stage you cease to believe in your survival. Jason -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CA%2BBCJUhZqFK9OnpegtU9x2NUAKq0_DQT_EwMo9ahKkRuizmTSA%40mail.gmail.com.
