This is no paradox. What is wrong for a deontologist is to choose to kill someone. In the 1 vs. 1 case, the agent isn't choosing to kill. He is forced...
Consider the case where the person at the switch was forced to choose between two tracks, each with one person. In your view, would the deontologist c...
Not necessarily. Suppose A, B, C are on track 1, and D on track 2. The choice of track 1 can be broken down into 3 bundled yet district choices: to ru...
You seem to be arguing against a position that nobody takes. Neither Chalmers nor anyone else believe geometric PoV is mysterious. Everyone agrees tha...
This feels like a strange misunderstanding. Qualia are intrinsically first person. When people talk about first person experience being mysterious, th...
Without reading the full post, this misses the problem. The problem is, no third person explanation can arrive at first person experience. There is an...
They both agree on the same underlying fact: there is no continuity beyond the perception of it. NC adds the additional idea: therefore, we are always...
I think PC and NC are actually the same position. PC says there is no deep fact of continuity or discontinuity. What matters is the subject's percepti...
Clearly I'm missing something. If the experience of interacting with me in a dream is the same as in reality, and I didn't cause your dream experience...
I don't think so. Any phenomenon admits to multiple explanations, the vast majority of which are profoundly unlikely. A conspiracy theory is a rococo ...
Here and in several other cases you are presuming your conclusion, that we exist. Only if we exist, have we caused these experiences in you, in realit...
I have no doubt I could have made different choices on innumerable occasions. There has never been a time in my life when my actions have been so cons...
No, that is the opposite of a toy case. By toy case I mean the simplified examples that may come to mind when considering causality, such as one billi...
Nice OP! I feel you have demonstrated less that cause is not a useful concept, but that the concept needs a lot of refinement to generalize beyond toy...
This is not news in the US, the discrepancy in violence is very, very obvious and well known. That the right is pretending otherwise, elevating a lone...
I'm not saying we should separate speech and consequence, where one is protected and the other isn't. I'm saying that the issue here doesn't seem to f...
It seems that this goes beyond perlocution and illocution. When someone utters, "I hate all stupid XYZs and I wish they would all disappear", the illo...
Moreover, I heard rumor that the big bad guv'ment had got itself involved. But I guess that is a-okay, here. Must be some really interesting philosoph...
Clearly they can speak, and clearly they can think. But it also seems clear that they think without using words. If words are just one style of thinki...
:up: Much more reasonable than that made up junk in the OP. "Experiencing" is probably not a thing with AI, but "manipulating" almost certainly is. Th...
How can this be reconciled with the fact that many people don't think in words? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/inner-monologue-experience...
Perhaps, but that is a different thought experiment. It is more than pragmatic. We defer immediate gratification for rewards in the future, sometimes ...
AFAIK, AI is not improving itself. Improvements still must come through human minds (though perhaps with some, and increasing, AI assistance). Moreove...
But then, what is the difference between the reader-usb where the reader reads your porn collection, and where the reader reads an empty USB? That dif...
Why on earth are you concerned about following a "plan" that exists only as a part of a fiction? What is relevant to us is the implications of when th...
No that is not what I was going for, I'm not interested in that question. I'm trying to wrap my head around the notion of an individual splitting. The...
Teleporter: A enters booth 1 -> disassemble A -> transmit info to booth 2 -> assemble B -> B exits booth 2 My version (what should have happened) : A ...
By that I mean the idea that it is not the the body that counts in personal persistence, but the mind. So long as the mind is faithfully reproduced, t...
There is still an epistemic asymmetry. You know, as the original, that you will be murdered. This is guaranteed. But you can only ever believe that yo...
In the same way that someone entering a teleporter expects to come out the other side, the victim expected to wake up as the clone. There was no misun...
They may be. But why is that the question? The patient (or teleportee), isn't asking if the clone (or teleported) will be a "valid decedent", whatever...
These are both true. The point of the story was to give a visceral sense that the clone is certainly not you. There are two entities, Original and Cop...
Not quite, I don't think the intent was to give anything. It was not an altruistic gesture. The decision was made in self interest, in the mistaken be...
Nope. I interpret it to mean that bodily continuity is a prerequisite of physical continuity. So yes the self is in some sense tied to the physical su...
Numerically the same body, not the same person. You can suffer enough brain damage such that your personhood is extinguished, but your body survives. ...
If you had a stroke or a TBI, what determines whether you survive in any form, or whether your old self is gone? There is no hard line. Part of you is...
Assuming psychological continuity is correct, it is up to you to draw the line. If you believe that any degree of survival counts as survival of the o...
You are thinking in terms of bodily survival. But the core of this question is which type of survival is relevant for personal continuity: bodily, or ...
We both know there is no line. You want to say, in the imperfect transporter, if survival is possible at all, there must be a line between survival an...
No. You are yet again talking from your implicit soul perspective, where "instance of consciousness" is your word for soul. Assuming psychological con...
Not theories of "instances of consciousness" but theories of personal continuity. What is relevant to personal continuity, bodily continuity, or psych...
Given the two perspectives on continuity, Bodily and Psychological: Aristotle Bodily: dead Psychological: dead Stroke victim Bodily: alive Psychologic...
I still don't think this works. Is it really binary? If you have a major stroke, does all of you survive? If you have a stroke such that you completel...
I don't understand why you think these statements conflict. A duplicate means two "I"s. Two people, each referring to themselves as "I", each individu...
I didn't realize I was conceding anything. When the hell did I say there was a shared consciousness? I gave a model. You said, but wait, there is a pr...
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