So your position would be that if you split, there is no fact on the matter as to whether you experience blacking out forever (like after a car accident), or whether you roll a dice as to which descendant you wake up as?
There is no objective “fact of the matter”, no. Identity is an emergent subjective concept. There is no “experience” of a blackout, as far as we know, since there is apparently no memory being recorded during that time. The experience comes from waking up and reflecting on what you recall, and this reflection can lead to different feelings for different people (or different parts of the same person). Privileging identity over brain functioning is not a great approach.
So your position would be that if you split, there is no fact on the matter as to whether you experience blacking out forever (like after a car accident), or whether you roll a dice as to which descendant you wake up as?
There is no objective “fact of the matter”, no. Identity is an emergent subjective concept. There is no “experience” of a blackout, as far as we know, since there is apparently no memory being recorded during that time. The experience comes from waking up and reflecting on what you recall, and this reflection can lead to different feelings for different people (or different parts of the same person). Privileging identity over brain functioning is not a great approach.
Thank you for explaining this. I don’t think this is coherent, but now I understand what you mean.
Well, I find my approach perfectly coherent, unlike the alternatives that pretend to be objective :)
That’s valid.