How do you distinguish between “me” and “something identical to me”?
We are just going in circles now. Yes, I believe that too… which is why this post is about arguing whether changing yourself sufficently is ‘killing yourself’.. since there are some observable differences between ‘me’ and ‘enhanced me’.
Or to put it in another way (a bit of a false dichotomy) - you either kill yourself when you ‘teleport’ as the ‘original’ is no longer there or alternatively you are data and you kill yourself when you change that data significantly.
I don’t think we’re going in circles. It is just that problems related to the Anthropic Trilemma aren’t easy.
Pattern Identity Theory does not have a distinction between “me” and “something identical to me”. You believe in the existence of such a distinction, so you want Pattern Identitfy Theory to not be true. So you are, quite rightly, pointing out the absurdities of Pattern Identity Theory: Sufficient changes being like “killing yourself” and other such nonsense.
I agree Pattern Identity Theory is false, if for entirely different reasons. I do not agree that the falsehood of Pattern Identity Theory means that the distinction exists.
We are just going in circles now. Yes, I believe that too… which is why this post is about arguing whether changing yourself sufficently is ‘killing yourself’.. since there are some observable differences between ‘me’ and ‘enhanced me’.
Or to put it in another way (a bit of a false dichotomy) - you either kill yourself when you ‘teleport’ as the ‘original’ is no longer there or alternatively you are data and you kill yourself when you change that data significantly.
I don’t think we’re going in circles. It is just that problems related to the Anthropic Trilemma aren’t easy.
Pattern Identity Theory does not have a distinction between “me” and “something identical to me”. You believe in the existence of such a distinction, so you want Pattern Identitfy Theory to not be true. So you are, quite rightly, pointing out the absurdities of Pattern Identity Theory: Sufficient changes being like “killing yourself” and other such nonsense.
I agree Pattern Identity Theory is false, if for entirely different reasons. I do not agree that the falsehood of Pattern Identity Theory means that the distinction exists.
I do? Since when?