Eliezer
“This is a black hole that sucks up arguments. Beware.
I’ll deal with this on Overcoming Bias eventually, but I haven’t done many of the preliminary posts that would be required.
Meanwhile, I hope you’ve noticed your confusion about personal identity.”
I look forward to the posts on consciousness, and yes, I don’t feel like I have a super coherent position on this. I struggle to understand how me is still me after I have died, my dead body is frozen, mashed up and then reconstituted some indefinite time in the future. Quarks are quarks but a human is an emergent property of quarks so interchangeability doesn’t necessarily follow at a macro scale. (A copy of a painting is not equivalent to the original, no matter how good a copy). This is why I don’t invest in cryonics. To me there should be better continuity to qualify as transference of consciousness, but I can’t be explicit on what I mean by better.
Eliezer “This is a black hole that sucks up arguments. Beware. I’ll deal with this on Overcoming Bias eventually, but I haven’t done many of the preliminary posts that would be required. Meanwhile, I hope you’ve noticed your confusion about personal identity.”
I look forward to the posts on consciousness, and yes, I don’t feel like I have a super coherent position on this. I struggle to understand how me is still me after I have died, my dead body is frozen, mashed up and then reconstituted some indefinite time in the future. Quarks are quarks but a human is an emergent property of quarks so interchangeability doesn’t necessarily follow at a macro scale. (A copy of a painting is not equivalent to the original, no matter how good a copy). This is why I don’t invest in cryonics. To me there should be better continuity to qualify as transference of consciousness, but I can’t be explicit on what I mean by better.