On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 4:06 PM Stathis Papaioannou <stath...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 08:37, Bruce Kellett <bhkellet...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 10:43 PM Telmo Menezes <te...@telmomenezes.net> >> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019, at 22:56, Bruce Kellett wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 3:53 AM Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote: >>> >>> On 16 Sep 2019, at 05:51, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < >>> everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 9/15/2019 6:13 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >>> >>> And memory is fallible, and memory of age has no more meaning when your >>> age is bigger that the nameable or describable number, which happens very >>> soon, relatively, for the immortal being trying to keep track of their >>> birthday. >>> >>> Immortality is when you are to old to be able to even name your age. >>> After that, you have always the same age. >>> >>> >>> Nice aphorisms. But irrelevant. The question is why don't we see >>> almost everyone else as younger? >>> >>> >>> That happens when we are not old enough, but also, we might always >>> backtrack to younger people when close to death or when dying, … >>> >>> >>> What utter nonsense. You cannot jump between Everett branches, so you >>> cannot jump to a branch in which you were young. >>> >>> Depends on what you mean by "you". >>> >> >> I mean the person who has lived on this branch since birth. In every >> other branch in which copies exist, they occupy that space. So you can't >> simply "become" one of those copies on another branch -- what would happen >> to the one that was there? So you do not transfer memories or anything >> like. And you certainly can't become a younger copy of yourself. >> > > You can "jump" to any entity that is a continuation of your current mental > state, even if there is no causal connection. Having a persistent human > body that is in good shape is means of ensuring that such entities exist. > There is no actual "jumping", of course, even in ordinary life; it is just > an illusion. > That means that you certainly cannot become an earlier version of yourself, because that would not be a continuation of your current mental state. If you die, you might continue as a copy that was made at the instant of death, but nothing else could count as a continuation of your mental state. 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/CAFxXSLRxoP4RNOMdCwJDomrke3%2BSX6hg%3DtThgt0Sm3wGL7%2BKzw%40mail.gmail.com.
