On 1/16/2014 2:07 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
No, you are missing the point. It is not that they are similar enough to be you, it is that they share everything that was necessary for /you /to be present in them. Your current perspective does not rule out that you are seeing from their eyes,Then why don't I always win at poker? You don't, you only think you don't always win because view of yourself is too limited.
I should get a good view of myself looking out of everyone else's eyes. But my present perspective doesn't rule out that it's not my present perspective. Hmm, why don't we just change the meaning of ALL the words.
just as seeing only one branch does not mean the wave function collapsed, and nor does seeing only one time prove presentism. The simpler hypothesis by far is that you are born as all of them,Simpler, but contradicted by observation. "God did it." is even simpler.Thinking universalism is contradicted by observation is the same error in thinking block time is contradicted because I'm only aware of one point in time.
But I'm not aware of just one point in time. I'm aware of memories and of duration.
Taking into account indexicals you can overcome many of the illusions our brain plays on us: making us falsely believe our point in time, branch in the many-worlds, or ego is somehow special.
Exactly my point. If your ego isn't special, then YOU don't exist.
rather than believing there is some special or privileged person which is the only person in the whole universe whose entire life /you /will experience.Except that is the definition of "you": the life you experienceRight, and that experience isn't limited to the of some singular physical continuation of some biological organism.
But it's limited to what I experience. Remember the common slogan on this list: everything=nothing. I think it applies to experience too.
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