So you're calling it woke just because of her mannerisms. So again you are just taking the position that woke = someone being trans and not hiding it....
The OP is a bit of a jumble between beauty and youth, so I'll try to untangle at the same time as giving my 2c: Beauty This is not a uniquely western ...
You say "no they don't" in response to my point that the problems related to the transporter don't apply to the "no persistence" position. But then fa...
I think you might be conflating two different things here. I am not saying that subjective experience itself is the illusion. I am talking about persi...
Sure but this is a somewhat different question to the hypothetical. Even most proponents of the "sent" position say that the entities immediately dive...
I don't think my answer to that is going to elucidate much, because there's a principled and practical answer. From a principled point of view, I thin...
I thought I already said what the issue is: there might be two entities that could call themselves Mijin, but stick a pin in one, and the other doesn'...
Yes. A significant problem within personal identity is whether my particles could be separated for T time interval and still preserve my instance of c...
You still have not said what was wrong with her behaviour, or why it is automatically "woke" (and how any trans person can ever appear on TV in a way ...
Well, one last interesting thing with this puzzle is: why is it so counter-intuitive? Why is it that most people, myself included, think the solution ...
How do you know that any separation for any period of time means nonexistence forever? And note, for all we know, something akin to this happens alrea...
Behaving like what? I watched it again to be sure, and she talks about a bunch of things, and if the ad is about anything, it's about March Madness. Y...
Well I was replying to a post about Dylan Mulvaney. Just the very notion of a trans person advertizing beer is "woke". So is it the case that anyone t...
But this seems to be taking the position that I alluded to upthread as "Locke's conception"; that the critical thing is the pattern of memories, chara...
How do you know that? Let's say there was technology that allowed me to separate and reform all your atoms within a nanosecond. Would you survive that...
You believe that in daily life, any time I refer to "I" that I am making a metaphysical claim? In any case, it's a question, so anyone disputing this ...
If that was the way the point came across, it wasn't my intention. I meant: the key problem with the transporter concerns persistence of the self whic...
Yes, again this is alluding to the position of bodily continuity and of course it makes intuitive sense. It's pretty much the paradigm that we all ass...
The problem is, any time anyone gay, non-binary, disabled etc does anything now, it gets labelled as "woke". Are they supposed to just hide? Like they...
Those facts are the premise of the problem though. The actual problem is in figuring out which persistent self(s) exist. All this kind of description ...
Firstly, so what if I made them up? We are speaking about principles, and setting laws. You think we don't need to consider what might happen? Secondl...
The problem though is whether I am alive or not is not merely semantics. Right now I am having experiences of the world; those experiences can be at d...
Really? So if we made the machine then if particle 4ea26363f75 was in position x=71.23 then: welcome to your new life on mars. But had it been at x=71...
So I have put it to you that you are not engaging with the problems with absolute free speech and gave three examples to illustrate the problems. Your...
@wonderer1 I have now. Very interesting, thanks. It also raises another point. If numerical identity is based purely on the pattern of atoms then it i...
Firstly, what? "Cancel culture" has been a top headline on the right for years. Trump's talked about it, Ron De Santis, FOX news, the daily wire, Cand...
Amadeus, you are clearly very confused because, like I say, this whole topic concerns the continuity of the mental self and I was clear about that in ...
You decry cancel culture, but when it's shutting down messages you don't like, you're all for it. And these rationalizations are, frankly, pathetic. W...
It would probably be a good thing for us as a species. Even though it's wasted effort, the feeling that there are important secrets that we might figu...
I feel you're not really engaging with the point though, that literally allowing any words to be spoken in any context would in some cases cause great...
But it also *could be* the original. Because all "fake" means is "trying to pass off as". So yes hypothetically someone could be trying to pass off th...
I think it is possible for fake fake to be kind of a double negation in some cases. For example, let's say we have fake gold, and you can tell it's no...
The cancelling that I am seeing is coming from the MAGA government right now -- federal agencies banned from talking about climate change, educational...
That wasn't the argument. I listed some of the reasons why there has to be limits on speech. I just happened to also mention that no nation has had ab...
This doesn't even make sense for the point you're trying to make. A national newspaper, that almost never corrects any of it's various made up stories...
Your first response was that it was a silly question. Your second response was that it needs to be your atoms. Neither response addresses why it needs...
I would come to pretty much the opposite conclusion -- that it shows how long we've been blowing up this "threat". Let me give you an example from her...
It's a great puzzle, really counter-intuitive. I've done up to the case where there are 4 islanders (see below), and it works, so I can see it would w...
I see I've arrived a bit late to this debate, but it seems it would be helpful for someone to bring it back to the original topic anyway. So my 2c is ...
Doh! My mistake. I meant the bit about when all the brown eyed people realize they have brown eyes...but on checking, that wasn't from the OP, that wa...
I've got here late and just read the first and last pages, but I'd agree that this version of the puzzle is not logically sound. If we follow it throu...
How many of your atoms, and why does it matter? If the transporter worked by just spitting your atoms across space and reassembling them, is that now ...
Well explaining the context of the transporter problem was important to the OP. And then, I engaged people to the level that they engaged with me. If ...
Yes no problem. When it comes to the transporter problem (also called the teletransporter problem) there are two major positions*, let's call them Sen...
Indeed. The question of what happens if the person at source is not deleted is a common objection to the idea that you are teleported. The common answ...
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