On 14 Feb 2014, at 20:43, John Clark wrote:
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Quentin Anciaux
<allco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> both the W *and* the M guy are the H guy
Yes.
> the question bear on probability of expectation for the H guy when
he press the button...
If that is the question then the answer will be of zero help in
understanding the nature of personal identity
But as Quentin just said, that is not the object of the inquiry.
because neither probability nor expectations have anything to do
with consciousness or of a continuous feeling of self.
OK, but expectations is the object of the inquiry.
Bruno
You feel like Quentin Anciaux today for one reason only, because you
remember being Quentin Anciaux yesterday; it's true that if Everett
was correct then there are other things that remember that too, but
how something feels or what they do can have no effect on you
because neither you nor I will ever interact with them nor they with
us. And for that reason pronouns like "I" and "you" and "them" and
"us" cause Everett no trouble, but in Bruno's thought experiment
they produce endless problems.
Everett wanted to explain why the predictions made by Quantum
Mechanics were so weird and so accurate, and he wanted to explain it
without introducing the very nebulous concept of "the observer", and
I think he was pretty successful in accomplishing his goal. Bruno
wanted to do something different, he wanted to explain how personal
identity and a continuous feeling of self worked, and in that he
failed.
> please state where you disagree.
Please? You're saying "please" now? What happened, did you lose
you're copy of The Giant Book Of Insults?
John K Clark
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