On 18 Jul 2016, at 07:42, Brent Meeker wrote:
On 7/17/2016 10:04 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
The problems arise because each copy has memories of being the
original and, because of the phenomenon of first person experience,
feels that he is the one true copy persisting through time
How would it feel any different if he weren't? He doesn't know and
neither does anyone else. So it's really meaningless to say he
feels he's the one true copy. He's just relying on his previous
prejudice that he was unique.
It is not a prejudice, it is an experience.
The prejudice might be in naming or describing it, like when the
computationalist practitionner chooses a substitution level.
Note that during sleep it seems that we can live two different dreams
at once. I recorded it for myself four times (on thousand of dreams).
Louis Jouvet (the discoverer of the REM dreams, and of the fact that
the brain both hallucinates the cortex and inhibits the muscles)
mention also that phenomenon, and assumes it happens when the corpus
callosum remains sleepy, at the time (add Hobson) the cerebral stem
triggers the cortex, and limbic system. Despite each of us is already
many, among many, we are all one and unique.
Brent
Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else. ---
Lily Tomlin
Nice quote. That sums up very well the main point.
Computationalism guaranties that if you ever survive a simple digital
transplant, then you will survive a self-duplication, and you will
feel remaining unique in that self-duplication. The Helsinki guy knows
with probability one, (modulo the assumption and the simple protocol
of course), that, whoever he will survive into, he will have to write
in the diary the letter W, or the letter M, but never both.
The QM equivalent is Everett Dewitt explanation of why we can't feel
the split (bifurcation/differentiation).
Bruno
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