When TheOtherDave walks into the destructive uploader, either he wakes up in a computer or he ceases to exist experiences no more. Not being able to experimentally determine what happened afterwards doesn’t change that fact that one of those descriptions matches what you experience and the other does not.
What do I experience in the first case that fails to match what I experience in the other?
That is, if TheOtherDave walks into the destructive uploader and X wakes up in a computer, how does X answer the question “Am I TheOtherDave?”
Again, I’m not talking about experimental determination. I’m talking about experience. You say that one description matches my experience and the other doesn’t… awesome! What experiences should I expect X to have in each case?
It sounds like your answer is that X will reliably have exactly the same experiences in each case, and so will every other experience-haver in the universe, but in one case they’re wrong and in the other they’re right.
Which, OK, if that’s your answer, I’ll drop the subject there, because you’re invoking an understanding of what it means to be wrong and right about which I am profoundly indifferent.
how does X answer the question “Am I TheOtherDave?”
This is so completely unrelated to what I am talking about. Completely out of left field. How the upload/clone answers or fails to answer the question “Am I TheOtherDave?” is irrelevant to the question at hand: what did TheOtherDave experience when he walked into the destructive uploader.
I’ve rephrased this as many times as I know how, but apparently I’m not getting through. I give up; this is my last reply.
When TheOtherDave walks into the destructive uploader, either he wakes up in a computer or he ceases to exist experiences no more. Not being able to experimentally determine what happened afterwards doesn’t change that fact that one of those descriptions matches what you experience and the other does not.
What do I experience in the first case that fails to match what I experience in the other?
That is, if TheOtherDave walks into the destructive uploader and X wakes up in a computer, how does X answer the question “Am I TheOtherDave?”
Again, I’m not talking about experimental determination. I’m talking about experience. You say that one description matches my experience and the other doesn’t… awesome! What experiences should I expect X to have in each case?
It sounds like your answer is that X will reliably have exactly the same experiences in each case, and so will every other experience-haver in the universe, but in one case they’re wrong and in the other they’re right.
Which, OK, if that’s your answer, I’ll drop the subject there, because you’re invoking an understanding of what it means to be wrong and right about which I am profoundly indifferent.
Is that your answer?
This is so completely unrelated to what I am talking about. Completely out of left field. How the upload/clone answers or fails to answer the question “Am I TheOtherDave?” is irrelevant to the question at hand: what did TheOtherDave experience when he walked into the destructive uploader.
I’ve rephrased this as many times as I know how, but apparently I’m not getting through. I give up; this is my last reply.
OK.