First, suppose that you think of all psychological descendants of your current self as ‘you’, but you don’t think of descendants of your past self as ‘you’.
I’m having trouble supposing this. Aren’t ALL descendants of my past selves “me”, including the me who is writing this comment? I’m good with differing degrees of “me-ness”, based on some edit-distance measure that hasn’t been formalized, but that’s not based on path, it’s based on similarity. My intuition is that it’s symmetrical.
I’m having trouble supposing this. Aren’t ALL descendants of my past selves “me”, including the me who is writing this comment? I’m good with differing degrees of “me-ness”, based on some edit-distance measure that hasn’t been formalized, but that’s not based on path, it’s based on similarity. My intuition is that it’s symmetrical.
I’m sympathetic to the idea this is a silly assumption, I just think it buys you a neat result.