Re: A calculus of personal identity

From: Brent Meeker <meekerdb.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:43:01 -0700

Bruno Marchal wrote:
There is no false 1-memories. Only an association between some
1-memory and some 3-reality can be false. If someone succeeds in
implementing correctly (more than just coherently) false beliefs (like
I am Napoleon just after Waterloo), then I will believe correctly that
I am Napoleon and that I have just lose a battle, almost by
definition. I will have to go in an asylum, sure, but my

1-memory of the past is correct given that they have been correctly
implemented.

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What does "correctly implemented" mean? Doesn't it reference some 3rd person standard of "correct"?

Brent Meeker
P.S. For some reason I get some of your posts, like the above, as enclosures to an otherwise empty
message!?

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