On 17 Jun 2015, at 18:26, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:



On Thursday, June 18, 2015, John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015  Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com> wrote:

>>> "You" are the person reading this sentence

>> OK, but then it would be meaningless to talk about what "you" will do tomorrow because "you" will not be reading that sentence tomorrow. So if Stathis Papaioannou wants to talk about the future Stathis Papaioannou if going to need a better definition of continuity; John Clark thinks a good one would be the person (or people) who remember reading that sentence right then, and in Many Worlds that would be lots and lots of people.

> There is an illusion that I am a unique individual persisting through time,

How would things be different if it were not an illusion? It's silly to try to explain consciousness by saying it's another subjective thing like illusion unless it can be objectively explained how that illusion is generated; I think the key to it is memory, if Stathis Papaioannou of today remembers being Stathis Papaioannou yesterday then Stathis Papaioannou of today gives Stathis Papaioannou yesterday the title "I".

> even if I know that there will be multiple versions of me in future. I hope that I will become one of the versions with good experiences rather than bad experiences.

But that implies that only one of those versions deserves the title of "I", and that is untrue.

And that's why it's an illusion.

Yes, that's exactly the point.

Bruno





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