On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 7:08 AM Jason Resch <jasonre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 12:15 AM Bruce Kellett <bhkellet...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 2:42 PM Jason Resch <jasonre...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> It's an imprecise and ad-hoc revision to the theory to preserve a >>> "singular identity" when the situation tells us the notion of a singular >>> identity is inconsistent and untenable. And just as quantum mechanics >>> undermined the idea of a single universe/history, QI was an imprecise and >>> ad-hoc revision added to preserve that notion. >>> >> >> I see. That is a rather judgemental approach to take. CI may have been >> ad hoc at the time, but recent developments in the understanding of Everett >> show that CI was not totally silly, after all (See Zurek >> arxiv:1807.02092. I see the closest continuer theory as a reasonable >> attempt to make sense of the notion of personal identity in a series of >> unusual scenarios. It makes little sense to say that these scenarios >> require that we throw out previous understandings of the idea. >> > > Sometimes new discoveries force this upon us. The flat earth, the > geocentric universe, an objective present, indestructible atoms, etc. > You have not discovered person duplication -- you have imagined it. Let us wait until it is actually possible before we jump to conclusions about what it might mean. > Here the motivation comes from non-dualistic theories of mind. If there > is not a magical soul that was breathed into your body, then there is no > longer an identity, as all matter and patterns are in theory copyable. > No, they are not all copyable. We do have no-cloning theorems in quantum mechanics. Besides, closest continuer theories are not dualistic. Bruce -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLRRX2T4ioPVViuYFcvf3_6UeiwiVQmzn9bg98Yd%2B4QNew%40mail.gmail.com.
