Re: language, cloning and thought experiments

2009-03-08 Thread Brent Meeker
Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > 2009/3/8 Brent Meeker : > >> And if it went to zero you certainly wouldn't know and wouldn't care. > > If I died I wouldn't be around to know or care, but I would care in > anticipation of dying, since it would radically alter my future > experiences by eliminating t

Re: The Amoeba's Secret - English Version started

2009-03-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
Pre-Scriptum (for John Mikes). John, I will answer your post in the following days. Thanks for your patience. On 07 Mar 2009, at 03:36, Kim Jones wrote: > > On 06/03/2009, at 11:24 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> - Neither physicists nor logicians really knows about the mind-body >> p

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Mar 2009, at 18:09, Günther Greindl wrote: > > Hi Bruno, > >>> With COMP it is not so clear. >> >> explicit appeal to self-consistency (= the move from Bp to Bp & Dt; >> the >> "Dt" suppresses the cul-de-sac). With comp, to believe in a next >> instant or in a successor state is already

Re: [Fwd: NDPR David Shoemaker, Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction]

2009-03-08 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 06 Mar 2009, at 18:06, Günther Greindl wrote: > The idea was that the numbers encode moments which don't have > successors > (the guy who transports), that's why there exist alien-OMs encoded in > numbers which destroy all the machines (if we assume that arithmetic > is > consistent).