I’m not sure that I understand the question. The post started out being about time. Time wasn’t “brought into it”.
Intuitions 1 and 2 collide in the same way regardless of whether the two mind-states are causally connected. [...] How does B-theory solve this problem?
I think you’re right that the intuitions collide regardless. In my experience, B-theorists reject Intuition 1. B-theorists incline to say that you are a temporally extended object, and that your present awareness is just one time-slice of this 4D object. That is, they allow that you contain, within your 4D extension, several self-aware parts that are not aware of one another. Two such self-aware parts are you-today and you-tomorrow.
(Here, I’m using “aware” to refer to the kind of immediate awareness that you have of your current experiences. Normally, even the most vivid memories lack this sense of immediateness and so are easily distinguished from present experience.)
B-theorists incline to say that you are a temporally extended object, and that your present awareness is just one time-slice of this 4D object. That is, they allow that you contain, within your 4D extension, several self-aware parts that are not aware of one another. Two such self-aware parts are you-today and you-tomorrow.
I’m an A-ist and that’s what I think. I don’t see how it’s incompatible with A-ism.
I probably should have used the terminology of “presentism” and “eternalism” instead of “A-theory” and “B-theory”. Do you consider yourself to be a presentist?
I’m not sure that I understand the question. The post started out being about time. Time wasn’t “brought into it”.
I think you’re right that the intuitions collide regardless. In my experience, B-theorists reject Intuition 1. B-theorists incline to say that you are a temporally extended object, and that your present awareness is just one time-slice of this 4D object. That is, they allow that you contain, within your 4D extension, several self-aware parts that are not aware of one another. Two such self-aware parts are you-today and you-tomorrow.
(Here, I’m using “aware” to refer to the kind of immediate awareness that you have of your current experiences. Normally, even the most vivid memories lack this sense of immediateness and so are easily distinguished from present experience.)
I’m an A-ist and that’s what I think. I don’t see how it’s incompatible with A-ism.
I probably should have used the terminology of “presentism” and “eternalism” instead of “A-theory” and “B-theory”. Do you consider yourself to be a presentist?