the, in principle, falsifiable assertion that if I opt for plastination that I will wake up in the future with an equal or greater probability than if I opt for cryonics
I’m not sure what you mean here. Probability statements aren’t falsifiable; Popper would have had a rather easier time if they were. Relative frequencies are empirical, and statements about them are falsifiable...
My assertion is that I will die and be replaced by someone hard or impossible to distinguish from me.
At the degree of resolution we’re talking about, talking about you/not-you at all seems like a blegg/rube distinction. It’s just not a useful way of thinking about what’s being contemplated, which in essence is that certain information-processing systems are running, being serialized, stored, loaded, and run again.
Suppose your brain has ceased functioning, been recoverably preserved and scanned, and then revived and copied. The two resulting brains are indistinguishable in the sense that for all possible inputs, they give identical outputs. (Posit that this is a known fact about the processes that generated them in their current states.) What exactly is it that makes the revived brain you and the copied brain not-you?
I’m not sure what you mean here. Probability statements aren’t falsifiable; Popper would have had a rather easier time if they were. Relative frequencies are empirical, and statements about them are falsifiable...
At the degree of resolution we’re talking about, talking about you/not-you at all seems like a blegg/rube distinction. It’s just not a useful way of thinking about what’s being contemplated, which in essence is that certain information-processing systems are running, being serialized, stored, loaded, and run again.
Oops, you’re right. I have now revised it.
Suppose your brain has ceased functioning, been recoverably preserved and scanned, and then revived and copied. The two resulting brains are indistinguishable in the sense that for all possible inputs, they give identical outputs. (Posit that this is a known fact about the processes that generated them in their current states.) What exactly is it that makes the revived brain you and the copied brain not-you?