Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Mar 2009, at 18:06, Günther Greindl wrote: The idea was that the numbers encode moments which don't have successors (the guy who transports), that's why there exist alien-OMs encoded in numbers which destroy all the machines (if we assume that arithmetic is consistent).

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Mar 2009, at 18:09, Günther Greindl wrote: Hi Bruno, With COMP it is not so clear. explicit appeal to self-consistency (= the move from Bp to Bp Dt; the Dt suppresses the cul-de-sac). With comp, to believe in a next instant or in a successor state is already based on an act of

Re: The Amoeba's Secret - English Version started

2009-03-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
Pre-Scriptum (for John Mikes). John, I will answer your post in the following days. Thanks for your patience. On 07 Mar 2009, at 03:36, Kim Jones wrote: On 06/03/2009, at 11:24 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: - Neither physicists nor logicians really knows about the mind-body problem.

Re: language, cloning and thought experiments

2009-03-08 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: 2009/3/8 Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com: And if it went to zero you certainly wouldn't know and wouldn't care. If I died I wouldn't be around to know or care, but I would care in anticipation of dying, since it would radically alter my future experiences