On 4 October 2015 at 07:31, Brent Meeker <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
> > On 10/3/2015 11:32 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > >> On 3 Oct 2015, at 5:02 PM, Brent Meeker <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 10/2/2015 8:52 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >>>> Remote copies are still copies. If a copy of you were made in the >>>> Andromeda Galaxy a billion years hence, it would still *by definition* >>>> think it was you despite being made of different matter, despite it being >>>> far removed in space and time, despite it possibly having no physical >>>> connection with you. >>>> >>> Yes, it would think so, but would it be right? In what sense is it >>> possible to right? >>> >> I don't think the difficulty of verification invalidates the point I am >> making. A sceptical challenge could be mounted in everyday life - we could >> have false memories and false beliefs about ourselves. >> > > But we check those against the consistency of our environment, physics and > our friends - which I think is the crux of Bruce's idea that you have to > reproduce a big chunk of the surrounding world in order to get the kind of > continuity you need. Not really. If you unexpectedly found yourself in a weird environment, floating in a bubble in space with no recollection of how you got there for example, I think you would become anxious, theorise about how you might have got there and what might happen next, and so on. I can't imagine that your first thought would be that, with most normal environmental cues gone, you would forget who you were. -- 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.
