Re: The ASSA leads to a unique utilitarism

2007-10-02 Thread marc . geddes
Make sure you get the spelling right ;) - Utilitarianism The trouble with Utilitarianism is that it's only concerned with one aspect of values - relations between rational agents. Further, although it's a good approach for practical calculation , it fails to deal with the explanatory

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2007-10-02 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi George, Are you still there on the list? I am really sorry to (re)discover your post just now, with a label saying that I have to answer it, but apparently I didn't. So here is the answer, with a delay of about one year :( Le 08-oct.-06, à 08:00, George Levy wrote : Finally I read

Re: against UD+ASSA, part 1

2007-10-02 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On 02/10/2007, Jesse Mazer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not talking about whether they are generated at different points in space in time or not from a 3rd-person perspective, I'm talking about whether there is a theory of consciousness that determines some sort of objective truths about the

Re: against UD+ASSA, part 1

2007-10-02 Thread Pete Carlton
Since barring global disaster there will be massively more observers in the future, why did you find yourself born so early? Surely your probability of being born in the future (where there are far more observers) was much much higher than your chances of being born so early among a far

Re: against UD+ASSA, part 1

2007-10-02 Thread Jesse Mazer
Pete Carlton wrote: Since barring global disaster there will be massively more observers in the future, why did you find yourself born so early? Surely your probability of being born in the future (where there are far more observers) was much much higher than your chances of being born so

Re: Maudlin's Demon (Argument)

2007-10-02 Thread George Levy
Hi Bruno, Yes I am still on the list, barely trying to keep up, but I have been very busy. Actually the ball was in my court and I was supposed to answer to your last post to me about a year ago!!!. Generally I agree with you on many things but here I am just playing the devils' advocate. The