wonderer1

Speaking of identity, I can with a high degree of confidence say that you are the same person as "Srap Tasmaner". Care to verify or falsify my intuiti...

It is an example of how it can be simplistic to talk in terms of necessity regarding genetics.

Pointing out nuances has been one of my purposes in this thread as well, for example my pointing out tetragametic chimeras earlier. https://embryo.asu...

As I said, it is a sentence of your creation. It seems to allude to inductions that are frequently made these days, but I don't see any need to pigeon...

It alludes to reasonable expectations we could have based on a wide range of empirical observations which have been made regardless of not in itself s...

It is a sentence you came up with. It is a simplistic assertion. No, it is not an observation. As it stands it is too vague to be empirically verifiab...

I don't really know what you are imagining here. Of course there are commisive utterances. I don't see what that has to do with this thread.

I'm not seeing a need for establishing humans as a natural kind, in order to recognize genetics as playing a necessary causal role in maintaining huma...

This is coming across to me like "What is wrong with you for questioning whether the emperor is wearing clothes?"

I'd just say Chalmers has bad epistemic hygiene. Inflationism might be handy for making weak arguments appear strong, but I'm not seeing a good reason...

Philosophers disagree.

How do you get from being able to imagine something, to that thing being metaphysically possible? People can certainly imagine things that aren't phys...

Those people are not physically identical to us, and so aren't relevant to Michael's argument.

Ah, I was hasty and didn't pay sufficient attention to the "identical" in 1. With that aspect of the definition in mind, I'll shove p-zombies the shor...

I don't see a need to reject 2 in order to reject 3. Getting to 3 in your argument seems to require a non-sequitur.

I wouldn't say impossible, but it's ludicrous to think there would be a couple of p-zombies carrying on, what to us would appear to be a deeply person...

Right.

Consider tetragametic chimeras. In such a case there were two separate conceptions resulting in one person.

Why think it does work? I think the most reasonable perspective on p-zombies is that they are an incoherent idea.

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Right, I was expecting someone to point that out, and I'm hardly surprised that it was Banno. Keep working on it. You are 'finding' problems that aren...

I was wondering how long it would take. :wink:

Since I am the person who has made all the posts as wonderer1, I know X. How exactly do I get from there to God and waffles? (It is breakfast time.)

I recommend trying more foreplay.

Let X = "The person who made that post as wonderer1 is the same person as the person who posted previously as wonderer1." It is the case that X. There...

This gets me thinking about 'muscle memory' events, like knocking a cup off a counter and reflexively catching it without time to think. We must have ...

Very cool!

Why in God's mind rather than in say, Tod's laptop? Copied and pasted from another forum: What hath Tod wrought?

It's logically possible that the person who is posting as wonderer1 right now is not the same person as posted previously as wonderer1. However it isn...

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Having looked at some of the quotes and links you provided, they seem to be presenting speculation rather than the sort of evidence you suggest.

Well, not really terra incognita, because stuff is being learned about non-coding DNA. One such detail (and actually kind of old news) is that broken ...

Given... 1. The complexity of our brains and the physical processes occurring therein. 2. The idiosyncratic differences between each of our brains. (D...

I appreciate your effort to verbalize this, and I'm glad you did post because I find this sort of stuff fascinating.

Thanks.

Ya know how autistic people tend to focus narrowly on one thing...

I presume The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas is still under copyright, so I won't post a link. However, a quick copy and paste and Google will turn up...

Citation?

Right. Perdurance seems to me a more realistic way of looking at identity.

Is this meant seriously? If so, it seems like a bizarre reaction to the thread to me.

Why blame him?

I found this bit of the article I linked particularly interesting:

I don't recall seeing a link in the thread to an article on the experience of an inner voices, so... https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/oct/25/t...

I already said that there is practical value to resolving one's contradictory beliefs. However, it is no more an indication of moral badness to find t...

I don't think there is any moral fact of the matter, though there is certainly pragmatic value in continually wiping the mirror. I don't think you hav...

Ah, the warm glow of Christian love. Anyway, I gave a serious response to your question. What do you think?

Epistemically possible? Sure. Metaphysically possible? I don't know of any good reason to think so.

I thought some might be interested in this: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-energy-consumption You are a bad man @"Wayfarer" - using Chat-GPT so profliga...

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I expect the lack of 'clicking' is mostly a matter of me trying to get by without providing enough details. The point I was hoping to get across was t...