Re: Reasons and Persons

From: Russell Standish <r.standish.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 16:22:23 +1000

Well yes, I suppose there is a set of assumptions about persons that
makes the argument work, the trouble is can we come up with a truly
believable set of assumptions? (My comment also on Jesse Mazer's post also).

This is good - it is delving deeper into Parfit's argument, exposing
subtle traps within.

Cheers

On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 03:07:49AM +0200, Saibal Mitra wrote:
>
> There must exist a ''high level'' program that specifies a person in terms
> of qualia. These qualia are ultimately defined by the way neurons are
> connected, but you could also think of persons in terms of the high-level
> algorithm, instead of the ''machine language'' level algorithm specified by
> the neural network.
>
> The interpolation between two persons is more easily done in the high level
> language. Then you do obtain a continuous path from one person to the other.
> For each intermediary person, you can then try to ''compile'' the program to
> the corresponding neural network.
>

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