In this message, I neither want to support the ASSA nor utilitarism.
But I will argue that the former has remarkable consequences for the
latter.
To give a short overview of the concepts, I remind you that
utilitarism is a doctrine measuring the morality of an action only by
its outcome. Those
On 01/10/2007, Jesse Mazer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is the DA incompatible with QI? According to MWI, your measure in the
multiverse is constantly dropping with age as versions of you meet
their demise. According to DA, your present OM is 95% likely to be in
the first 95% of all OM's
On 4/29/07, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Two things in my mind make personal identity fuzzy:
1. The MWI of quantum mechanics, which if true means each person
experiences a perhaps infinite number of histories across the multi-
verse. Should personal identity extend to just one branch or
Also single mind can be regarded as collection of parts interacting
with each other. If each part can be regarded as its information
content, each physical implementation ties together instantiations of
parts. If single mind can be implemented by multiple implementations,
each of these
On 02/10/2007, Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also single mind can be regarded as collection of parts interacting
with each other. If each part can be regarded as its information
content, each physical implementation ties together instantiations of
parts. If single mind can be
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On 01/10/2007, Jesse Mazer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess if you believe there is no real
temporal relation between OMs, that any sense of an observer who is
successively experiencing a series of different OMs is an illusion and
that
the only real
Not single mind is half-zombified, but single brain. Half of the brain
implements half of the mind, and another half of the brain is zombie.
Another half of the mind (corresponding to zombie part of the brain)
exists as information content and can be implemented in different
universe. This view
Vladimir Nesov wrote:
Not single mind is half-zombified, but single brain. Half of the brain
implements half of the mind, and another half of the brain is zombie.
Another half of the mind (corresponding to zombie part of the brain)
exists as information content and can be implemented in
Are you asking why I consider notion of p-zombieness meaningful?
On 10/2/07, Jesse Mazer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Vladimir Nesov wrote:
Not single mind is half-zombified, but single brain. Half of the brain
implements half of the mind, and another half of the brain is zombie.
Another
On 02/10/2007, Vladimir Nesov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not single mind is half-zombified, but single brain. Half of the brain
implements half of the mind, and another half of the brain is zombie.
Another half of the mind (corresponding to zombie part of the brain)
exists as information
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