I do not mean some kind of self-body identity (a la mind-brain identity). I do mean to naturalize selfhood though, which intention I thought would be ...
I don't understand your difficulty. Memory doesn't have to draw any boundaries: it's not like it can choose a different scope or perspective than that...
I am not sure there is a real distinction here, but anyway, I still don't see how MWI can be taken instrumentally in this sense. "The explanation or a...
What does it mean to be a "a shut-up-and-calculate instrumentalist with respect to MWI"? How would you use MWI in calculations or why would you even n...
How does one "buy MWI instrumentally"? If you are a shut-up-and-calculate instrumentalist, then ostensibly at least you have no use for interpretation...
Well, that's a plausible answer to the question "Why should you be worried about something that's only going to happen to you." The answer you give is...
I understand (I think) that your line of questioning has to do with the question of personal identity and its continuity through time (or lack thereof...
Yeah, that's the worst possible reason for rejecting some physics or even an interpretation: that it is strange, incredible, etc. - especially for a w...
I am not sure why you are dwelling on this. If I accept a definition, then I henceforth take the definiendum to be synonymous with that definition. Bu...
Infinite space? Of course. Whether it's "real" and "physical" is down to semantics, I guess*. But the idea that space is infinite is old and, I would ...
Not only not the consensus, but apparently not even the majority view. Well, the idea that the universe is spatially infinite was commonplace througho...
"Produces" is indeed a synonym for "causes" in this context. Thus we can plug in "causes" in place of "produces" and the problem should then become ob...
"x produces y" is a paraphrase of "x causes y". Your definition is even worse than circular: it appeals to a narrower notion of causation (one that sp...
In your model universe and by your definition, everything causes everything that follows. That is, any given set of events cause any given events that...
Update for the Ignore extension (5/19/2018): Chrome: Chrome now allows installing extensions only from its web store, and since I am not a registered ...
So I guess this is my first post here. I am just an occasional lurker at this point. But I come bearing gifts :) For myself and those few of you who u...
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