I accept. After which I may possibly decide to execute a coordinated suicide of something like N-3 or N-4 copies so as to increase the subjective payoff.
I certainly do acknowledge a subjective experience of consciousness. However, I don’t understand why you treat its interruption as so catastrophic. Sleep does it all the time. If you define “I” solely in terms of consciousness, do you agree that “you” have only truly existed since you last awoke?
The intuition behind my acceptance of the local death you propose is based very much in my subjective experience of consciousness. Have you ever awakened in the middle of the night, had a verbal exchange with someone, and then fell asleep and forgot the entire experience, even when reminded of it? This seems entirely analogous to local death: You experience a few minutes of subjective existence, but then your thread then gets “reverted” to a previous state, and continues from there.
That’s also why I’d have no problem suiciding most of the copies. If someone came to me right now and offered me a large sum of money in exchange for reverting all trace and memory of the previous two hours of my existence, I’d accept in a heartbeat.
I certainly do acknowledge a subjective experience of consciousness. However, I don’t understand why you treat its interruption as so catastrophic. Sleep does it all the time. If you define “I” solely in terms of consciousness, do you agree that “you” have only truly existed since you last awoke?
It does seem probable. Certainly if I didn’t need to sleep, I wouldn’t agree to start sleeping, on these grounds—it looks much too dangerous!
As I just wrote in another reply, I am convinced that my way of looking at things is incomplete and does not extend to new types of experiences (e.g., cloning), but I am not at all convinced that any of the alternative theories proposed in this thread are better.
I accept. After which I may possibly decide to execute a coordinated suicide of something like N-3 or N-4 copies so as to increase the subjective payoff.
I certainly do acknowledge a subjective experience of consciousness. However, I don’t understand why you treat its interruption as so catastrophic. Sleep does it all the time. If you define “I” solely in terms of consciousness, do you agree that “you” have only truly existed since you last awoke?
The intuition behind my acceptance of the local death you propose is based very much in my subjective experience of consciousness. Have you ever awakened in the middle of the night, had a verbal exchange with someone, and then fell asleep and forgot the entire experience, even when reminded of it? This seems entirely analogous to local death: You experience a few minutes of subjective existence, but then your thread then gets “reverted” to a previous state, and continues from there.
That’s also why I’d have no problem suiciding most of the copies. If someone came to me right now and offered me a large sum of money in exchange for reverting all trace and memory of the previous two hours of my existence, I’d accept in a heartbeat.
It does seem probable. Certainly if I didn’t need to sleep, I wouldn’t agree to start sleeping, on these grounds—it looks much too dangerous!
As I just wrote in another reply, I am convinced that my way of looking at things is incomplete and does not extend to new types of experiences (e.g., cloning), but I am not at all convinced that any of the alternative theories proposed in this thread are better.