As always we completely agree in substance, while using different semantics.
For the Doomsday argument, it also used the second meaning: the nonphysical reference to the first-person perspective.
Yes, that’s why I’m saying that it requires the existence of some non-physical entity, which I call souls.
You seem to imply that “first person perspective” itself is non-physical, but this sounds weird to me, Clearly physicalism is not debunked by the fact taht people have first person perspectives. There are seem to be very physical rules due to which mind in Dadadarren’s body has Dadarren’s first person perspective and not Ape in the coat’s.
Notice the “I” here is not equivalent to a particular physical person anymore but a reference to the first-person perspective.
The only way how “I” here can not be equivalent to particular physical person is if we assume that there is something non-physical about personhood. People do indeed implicitly assume it all the time. But this assumption is completely ungrounded, and that’s what I’m pointing out.
“I am this particular physical person, period (be it Ape in the Coat in your case or Dadadarren for me). There’s no rational way of reasoning otherwise.”
Yes, absolutely. “I” is just a variable, referencing different things depending on who says it. When Dadadarren says “I” it means “Dadadarren”. When Ape in the coat says “I” it means “Ape in the coat”.
There really is no further need of inquiring into the particular physical person’s birth rank variations due to pregnancy complications.
Doomsday argument can be expressed in terms of birth ranks. So inquiring in the mechanism due to which physical people accure birth ranks seems to be only right thing to do.
Please do not take this as an insult. Though I do not intend to continue this discussion further, I feel obliged to say that I strongly disagree that we have the same position in substance and only disagree in semantics. Our position are different on a fundamental level.
As always we completely agree in substance, while using different semantics.
Yes, that’s why I’m saying that it requires the existence of some non-physical entity, which I call souls.
You seem to imply that “first person perspective” itself is non-physical, but this sounds weird to me, Clearly physicalism is not debunked by the fact taht people have first person perspectives. There are seem to be very physical rules due to which mind in Dadadarren’s body has Dadarren’s first person perspective and not Ape in the coat’s.
The only way how “I” here can not be equivalent to particular physical person is if we assume that there is something non-physical about personhood. People do indeed implicitly assume it all the time. But this assumption is completely ungrounded, and that’s what I’m pointing out.
Yes, absolutely. “I” is just a variable, referencing different things depending on who says it. When Dadadarren says “I” it means “Dadadarren”. When Ape in the coat says “I” it means “Ape in the coat”.
Doomsday argument can be expressed in terms of birth ranks. So inquiring in the mechanism due to which physical people accure birth ranks seems to be only right thing to do.
Please do not take this as an insult. Though I do not intend to continue this discussion further, I feel obliged to say that I strongly disagree that we have the same position in substance and only disagree in semantics. Our position are different on a fundamental level.