On 9/9/2020 3:32 AM, John Clark wrote:
None of the identical copies becomes separate people until one of them sees something the others do not, because after that they are no longer identical
That's an exaggeration. There are many things that will differentiate the copies other than what they see. The interesting question is whether things that are subconscious count...something he felt but only remembered feeling much later? ...a flea bite he didn't notice? ...ex hypothesi there are a lot of physical differences at the molecular level. I don't think consciousness is the unitary thing that is implicitly assumed on this forum.
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