On 10/4/2015 3:53 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On 5 Oct 2015, at 5:14 AM, Brent Meeker <meeke...@verizon.net
<mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> wrote:
On 10/4/2015 12:21 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On 4 October 2015 at 07:31, Brent Meeker <meeke...@verizon.net
<mailto: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.
Sure. But if you can find no causal explanation connecting your
circumstances to your memories you might well doubt your memories
were veridical, especially if you knew duplication of humans was
possible.
But this doesn't mean that the sense of continuing as the same person
is dependent on replicating the whole visible universe.
Is that what the argument is about? Whether one can have the "sense of
continuity"? I'm pretty sure that's possible without even a very close
duplication. What does it consist of? ...knowing a name, some memories
associated with that name...
Brent
Brent
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