On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 smitra <smi...@zonnet.nl> wrote: > > You can just define personal identity as a single observer moment, which > includes any memories of the outcomes of the duplication experiments, so > the string of the "W"'s and "M"'should be included in the definition of > "you". >
OK. > > But there is not problem here if you just take the formal description of > any conscious being as defining its personal identity. But if that definition of "you" is used then the question "What one and only one city did you end up seeing?" has no answer because it is not a question at all, it is just a sequence of ASCII characters the last of which happens to be a question mark. 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.
