As for your assertion about the implications of QM on the questions of personal identity, this looks even more as a belief that you’ve taken on faith, backed by sheer rationalizations. (Again, regardless of its actual merits when the real arguments are considered—I’m not saying that it’s incorrect, merely that you don’t have any good reason to believe either way if your grasp of the issue is entirely non-mathematical.)
Leaving aside for now the question of understanding of Copenhagen validity but as for the specific claim about knowing enough contemporary physics to understand the implications to personal identity your rejection is just nonsense. You most certainly can gain enough knowledge to make conclusions about personal identity without knowing math.
Ask an impressive physicist:
“Dude are, like, atoms and combinations thereof in any way uniquely identified?”
He says “nah”.
You say “kk”
From there you have some utterly trivial philosophizing to do to reject ideas of “same atoms for personal identity”. This is a trivial question and basically relies on not being philosophically incompetent while also checking with a physicist just in case some relevant, surprising and bizarre phenomenon has appeared recently at incomprehensibly high levels of physics.
You most certainly can gain enough knowledge to make conclusions about personal identity without knowing math. Ask an impressive physicist: [...]
The critical step however involves asking a physicist and accepting his opinion on authority. Such evidence is by no means invalid, to be sure, but it’s something quite different from the original context, which was about understanding things yourself. (Plus, the weight of this evidence should be discounted due to the fact that the question is, strictly speaking, outside of the physicist’s immediate domain of expertise, and dependent on issues that raise significant controversy.)
Leaving aside for now the question of understanding of Copenhagen validity but as for the specific claim about knowing enough contemporary physics to understand the implications to personal identity your rejection is just nonsense. You most certainly can gain enough knowledge to make conclusions about personal identity without knowing math.
Ask an impressive physicist:
From there you have some utterly trivial philosophizing to do to reject ideas of “same atoms for personal identity”. This is a trivial question and basically relies on not being philosophically incompetent while also checking with a physicist just in case some relevant, surprising and bizarre phenomenon has appeared recently at incomprehensibly high levels of physics.
The critical step however involves asking a physicist and accepting his opinion on authority. Such evidence is by no means invalid, to be sure, but it’s something quite different from the original context, which was about understanding things yourself. (Plus, the weight of this evidence should be discounted due to the fact that the question is, strictly speaking, outside of the physicist’s immediate domain of expertise, and dependent on issues that raise significant controversy.)