"I" would mean the individual who was stuck. There are two numerically distinct individuals who claim continuity with the same individual in the past....
I'm not following your logic here. At the moment of death, you agree the body is identical to the body immediately before death. Yet, personhood is ex...
If we are talking numerical identity, then clearly not. But personal identity is obviously not numerical identity. This is most clear in death. When s...
And what is the problem with that? Whether or not people explicitly believe in souls, my position is that there is an implicit presumption of souls in...
Because for instance, nobody actually counts molecules or uses molecules as a criteria for identity (and as already established, nor does the universe...
I have articulated a notion of self already. "Self" is a conceptual integration of sensory experience, mental experience, and memory into a unified id...
Not necessarily. People can still be confused, and imagine criteria for "sameness" in certain scenarios that neither they nor anyone else actually app...
What we identify as "the exact same chair" is our mental bookkeeping we impose on the world. It is not a part of the world itself. The universe does n...
@"Mijin"@"AmadeusD" I think the fundamental conceptual problem here is the nature of persistence. The experience of personal persistence is, in the pr...
What exactly is the problem with multiple "I"s? If we had metaphysical selves, aka souls, then it would be a problem. Which one would the soul ("I" he...
Despite what I said, I sympathize. To me the thought experiment is more real and poignant if it is less abstractly sci-fi. Suppose you have a serious ...
No, normally not, normally "I" just designates the speaker. In this question, though, it seems to designate not the speaker as such, but an implicit g...
The facts I listed are as first person and subjective as I can think of a fact being. What"first person facts" am I leaving out? I think it is the kin...
@"AmadeusD" By posing this question you are importing the notion that there is a metaphysical, persistent self that may or may not persist. By listing...
I realized I did a horrible job conveying just how tiny the coherent subset of every possible book is. One atom vs. the whole observable universe does...
I think this is far more answerable than my question. Assume the set of all 100 page books, 1500 characters per page. Ignore punctuation. In the rando...
At every moment, you experience things: sensations from the world, and sensations from yourself. These are facts of experience. These sensations don't...
These are the facts. Someone steps out of the teleporter. That someone has experiences. That someone has a self-autobiography, that tells it that it i...
The core confusion of all such problems is the nature of identity. Identity is a mental label masquerading as a metaphysical property. When this is re...
So if in the codex we encounter, :smile: :hearts: :smirk: :point: :lol: :wink: :nerd: :love: :roll: :monkey: :nerd: Are you proposing we can map this ...
But the core premise is that there is no meaning at all in the text. [ Perhaps. But it would be interesting to see how the Coptic/Egyptian case, minus...
Yes, this is the other side of the coin that I don't think has been mentioned yet. It may be that even if the contents were perfectly meaningful, we w...
"Incontrovertible" seems far from a rigorous, objective term. It is a "know it when I see it" kind of thing. At one end are completely coherent novels...
Good point. If one coherent (whatever that means) interpretation can be produced it seems likely innumerable can be. This will call the legitimacy of ...
Really I should have said "translation", not "meaning". And it is true, not every earth-language translation is the same. What I really meant was, the...
Humanity must assume that the codex has a single, incontrovertible meaning. What throws me off is when you say that we can start with a single string ...
But this is cheating, and would be readily apparent to the community of decoders. You are essentially putting the decoding into the decoder. Suppose s...
If it is an encrypted alien message, the task is certainly hopeless. But if it was, then it wouldn't display the language like regularities I mentione...
Sorry, let me try again, I might have gotten mixed up in my last attempt to reply to this. I guess what I am asking is precisely this. CAN a false mea...
No. Imagine how the symbols are arranged in a language, vs noise. There is a lot of structure and repetition in a language, whereas noise has none. No...
I think we are in the same page. It is not possible to derive a message from noise. But that is just my intuition. Everything about the presentation s...
Any interpretation at all is too permissive, only our alien expectations is too restrictive. What I am asking is, can a incontrovertible message be de...
Maybe. But that is just semantics. "Is it an interpretation or isn't it" is ultimately definitional. I'm interested if meaning can be constructed in n...
@"Mijin" If spatial-temporal continuity is required to maintain identity, then your case adds nothing, the subject is killed no matter what. If it is ...
Yes, you can look to life as the best example. Genetic code influences other generic code, messenger molecules, large and small scale structure, reall...
I would say there are three terms, not two. Substrate, encoding, and content. Substrate is purely physical, content is purely informational, and they ...
A: The leaf is red. The leaf has such and such shape. The genetic sequence is ATATGCA... B: (The actual light reflected) (The actual molecules arrange...
Yes, I imagine informational objects, so do many. Using technology these days does that to you. Velocity is typically a property of material objects, ...
Yes. To qualify as art less, means it only marginally identifies as art. Oatmeal, or a poo painting. This is not a value judgement, this is a statemen...
Data on a computer certainly is. I think information and interpretation have to be kept distinct. Note that it doesn't need to be a conscious being do...
Comparison to absolute? What does that mean? It is not the artist caring, it is the critic. A critic can acknowledge that a piece is "artistic", yet n...
It is not a solution whatsoever until @"Michael" can prove it. In the "official" formulation I saw on Popular Mechanics, it says something to the effe...
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