On 11 Feb 2009, at 18:30, Saibal Mitra wrote:
>
> Welcome back Jack Mallah!
>
> I have a different argument against QTI.
>
> I had a nice dream last night, but unfortunately it suddenly ended.
> Now, this is empirical evidence against QTI because, according to the
> QTI, the life expectancy of the version of me simulated in that dream
> should have been be infinite.
The notion of "ending" makes sense only relatively to something
"ending latter or not ending".
With most definition of first person (including both UDA and AUDA
definitions) "first person ending" just makes no sense.
Topologically, life is an open set.
Bruno
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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Received on Thu Feb 12 2009 - 09:56:07 PST