Re: A calculus of personal identity

From: Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 15:51:43 +0200

Le 23-juin-06, à 06:51, Lee Corbin a écrit :

> Now the version of me who continues on Earth *would* be very
> unhappy (though he would become used to it) if each second .9999
> percent of him was taken away to hell forever. This is because
> I must anticipate being in hell (just as you are saying).

OK.


> However,
> the *feeling* of anticipation cannot so far as I know be placed
> on entirely rational grounds. I gave up trying in 1986.


Ah!
I'm afraid it could mean you are a self-referentially correct lobian
machine :-)

Such machine can anticipate (on some next world for example) but can
never justified those anticipations.

The diag posts are aimed to make this utterly precise.

Bruno

http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/


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