Does your 'self' carry over from one planck-time to the next? I don't think
so, and that voids all western philosophy.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacques M Mallah [SMTP:jqm1584.domain.name.hidden]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 9:48 PM
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> Subject: Re: valuable errors
>
> On 14 xxx -1, Marchal wrote:
> > OK, so you agree that a computationalist could, in case it is
> > technologically feasible, use teletransport to "move" herself.
> > Remember that the "original" is destroyed, and "reconstituted"
> elsewhere.
> >
> > I guess you agree that if someone survives teletransport, she will still
> > survives teletransport in case of multiple and independent
> > reconstitutions.
> >
> > Now, you were saying that the "entrenched trivial" errors concerns the
> > measure issue.
> >
> > Could you tell me if there is already an "entrenched trivial error" for
> > those who believes, like myself, that if people tell us in advance that
> > there will be multiple reconstitutions, then, before teletransportation,
>
> > their "immediate" futur is undetermined ?
> >
> > This is what I like to call Mechanist or Computationnalist
> Indeterminism.
> > So my question is "do you believe in Mechanist Indeterminism ?".
>
> The situation you described is completely deterministic, much like
> the MWI of QM.
> For all practical purposes, a person who is copied should expect
> their future selves to be effectively randomly chosen.
> If you want to talk about what is actually going on though, I
> don't even accept that 'individual identity' carries over from one time
> step of a computation to the next. It's just that the future self or
> selves are sufficiently similar to the current self to motivate an
> interest in his (or their) well being.
>
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Received on Fri Apr 16 1999 - 02:38:54 PDT