Re: all of me or one of me

1999-04-07 Thread Marchal
ERRATA I am sorry. I guess I was a bit flighty with my post yesterday. DON'T READ: >In experiment A, one box is put in *paradise* and 999 999 are put in >*hell*. >In experiment B, one box is put in *hell* and 999 999 are put in >*paradise*. > >(I suppose also that the different places in *he

Re: all of me or one of me

1999-04-06 Thread Marchal
Wei Dai wrote: >Given the MWI or one of the "everything" theories we've discussed, the >universe must contain multiple observers who have exactly the same >memories and experiences as you do. Should you identify with all of them, >or should you think, "I am one of these people, but I don't know wh

Re: all of me or one of me

1999-04-01 Thread Wei Dai
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 06:36:31PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Wouldn't the situation most relevant to the question of identity be one > where the two people in the room are both copies of you? Where you can > know that each would do exactly the same thing? The reason I didn't use a scenar

Re: all of me or one of me

1999-04-01 Thread hal
Wei Dai, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes, regarding whether we should identify with exact copies of ourselves: > I think the following thought experiment shows the latter is more > appropriate. Suppose you are one of two people in a prisoner's dilemma > type game, where if you push button A both playe