On 15 April 2015 at 02:36, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > If I commit suicide the illusion of persisting through time is >> > destroyed. > > > Whenever somebody says X is an illusion the first question that should be > asked is how would things be different if X were not an illusion; so how > would things be different if persisting through time were not an illusion?
If being a unique entity persisting through time were not an illusion then in the case of duplication experiments we could definitely say that you would persist as one of the copies rather than the other. >> > If the copies are running in lockstep then I would say there is only one >> > stream of consciousness, and nothing is lost by terminating one of the >> > copies. > > > I agree, that is the only logical conclusion. > > John K Clark > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
