I appreciate the degree of care you take in your conceptual analysis, Diego.
You’re pinning down a certain concept of “self”, and I’m not quite sure what it’s going to be used for:
If “selves” are to be the things alive today whose volition will be extrapolated, then as long as the set of selves contains me or people like me, I’ll be happy.
If “selves” is supposed to refer to the set of all things whose volition ought to be extrapolated, then we ought to be careful to exclude Babyeaters and the like.
I appreciate the degree of care you take in your conceptual analysis, Diego.
You’re pinning down a certain concept of “self”, and I’m not quite sure what it’s going to be used for:
If “selves” are to be the things alive today whose volition will be extrapolated, then as long as the set of selves contains me or people like me, I’ll be happy.
If “selves” is supposed to refer to the set of all things whose volition ought to be extrapolated, then we ought to be careful to exclude Babyeaters and the like.