Thanks! In particular also for your more-kind-than-warranted hint at your original w/o accusing me of theft!! Especially as I now realize (or maybe realize again) your sleep-clone-swap example, which indeed I love as an perfectly concise illustration, had also come along with at least an “I guess”-caveated “it is subjective”, i.e. which some sense is really already included a core part of the conclusion/claim here.
I should have also picked up your ‘stream-of-consciousness continuity’ vs. ‘substrate/matter continuity’ terminology. Finally, the Ship of Theseus question thus, with “Temporal parts” vs. “Continued identity” would also be good links, although I guess I’d be spontaneously inclined to dismiss part of the discussion of these as questions ‘merely of definition’ - just until we get to the question of the mind/consciousness, where it seems to me indeed to become more fundamentally relevant (although, maybe, and ironically, after relegating the idea of a magical persistent self, maybe one could say, also here in the end it becomes slightly closer to that ‘merely question of definition/preference’ domain).
Btw, I’ll now take your own link-to-comment and add it to my post—thanks if you can let me know where I can create such links; I remembered looking and not finding it ANYWHERE even on your own LW profile page.
Aaw no problem at all Florian, I genuinely simply enjoyed you mentioning that sleep-clone-swap thought experiment and truly wasn’t bothered at all by anything about it, thank you so much for your very interesting and kind words and your citation and link in your article, wow I am blushing now!
And thank you so much for that great post of yours and taking the time to thoroughly answer so many comments (incuding mine!) that is so kind of you and makes for such an interesting thread about this topic of entity/person/mind/consciousness/self continuity/discontinuity which is quite fascinating!
And in my humble opinion indeed it has a lot to do with question of definitions/preferences but in any case it is always interesting to read/hear about eloquently/well-spoken words about this topic, thank you so much again for that!
About creating link-to-comment, I think one way to do it is to click on the time indicator next to the author name at the top of the comment then copy that link/URL.
Thanks! In particular also for your more-kind-than-warranted hint at your original w/o accusing me of theft!! Especially as I now realize (or maybe realize again) your sleep-clone-swap example, which indeed I love as an perfectly concise illustration, had also come along with at least an “I guess”-caveated “it is subjective”, i.e. which some sense is really already included a core part of the conclusion/claim here.
I should have also picked up your ‘stream-of-consciousness continuity’ vs. ‘substrate/matter continuity’ terminology. Finally, the Ship of Theseus question thus, with “Temporal parts” vs. “Continued identity” would also be good links, although I guess I’d be spontaneously inclined to dismiss part of the discussion of these as questions ‘merely of definition’ - just until we get to the question of the mind/consciousness, where it seems to me indeed to become more fundamentally relevant (although, maybe, and ironically, after relegating the idea of a magical persistent self, maybe one could say, also here in the end it becomes slightly closer to that ‘merely question of definition/preference’ domain).
Btw, I’ll now take your own link-to-comment and add it to my post—thanks if you can let me know where I can create such links; I remembered looking and not finding it ANYWHERE even on your own LW profile page.
Aaw no problem at all Florian, I genuinely simply enjoyed you mentioning that sleep-clone-swap thought experiment and truly wasn’t bothered at all by anything about it, thank you so much for your very interesting and kind words and your citation and link in your article, wow I am blushing now!
And thank you so much for that great post of yours and taking the time to thoroughly answer so many comments (incuding mine!) that is so kind of you and makes for such an interesting thread about this topic of entity/person/mind/consciousness/self continuity/discontinuity which is quite fascinating!
And in my humble opinion indeed it has a lot to do with question of definitions/preferences but in any case it is always interesting to read/hear about eloquently/well-spoken words about this topic, thank you so much again for that!
About creating link-to-comment, I think one way to do it is to click on the time indicator next to the author name at the top of the comment then copy that link/URL.