I think that if you embrace “Dust Theory” then for consistency you must also reject the way of thinking about identity that views the question “of all these future Eitan Zohars, which will be me?” as a sensible one to ask.
You go to sleep. (In this world and many others, in all of which your mind-state including all its memories and current perceptions are identical.) You wake up. (In this world and many others, in all of which your mind-state including all its memories and current perceptions are identical.) If you’re worried that in this process you may “jump” into a different world, you should worry exactly the same every second of your waking life.
[EDITED to add the last 6 words of the paragraph beginning “I think”; I must have got distracted while writing this the first time. It looks like I was understood anyway.]
My consciousness only follows one path, so yes, an indeterminate future Eitan Zohar will in fact be me. Since I’m no longer awake to keep the measure of my dominant reality stable, I’m worried that my unconscious mind will create it instead.
Yes, it does. In the future, I will not be perceiving events from other quantum branches. According to Dust Theory, the branches of me will continue experiencing events, but that isn’t any good once I’ve separated from them!
All I’m saying is that a large measure of me may be going down a bad path.
What do you mean by “I”?
I think that if you embrace “Dust Theory” then for consistency you must also reject the way of thinking about identity that views the question “of all these future Eitan Zohars, which will be me?” as a sensible one to ask.
You go to sleep. (In this world and many others, in all of which your mind-state including all its memories and current perceptions are identical.) You wake up. (In this world and many others, in all of which your mind-state including all its memories and current perceptions are identical.) If you’re worried that in this process you may “jump” into a different world, you should worry exactly the same every second of your waking life.
[EDITED to add the last 6 words of the paragraph beginning “I think”; I must have got distracted while writing this the first time. It looks like I was understood anyway.]
My consciousness only follows one path, so yes, an indeterminate future Eitan Zohar will in fact be me. Since I’m no longer awake to keep the measure of my dominant reality stable, I’m worried that my unconscious mind will create it instead.
I don’t see how you can coherently both endorse “Dust Theory” and also hold that “my consciousness only follows one path”.
Yes, it does. In the future, I will not be perceiving events from other quantum branches. According to Dust Theory, the branches of me will continue experiencing events, but that isn’t any good once I’ve separated from them!
All I’m saying is that a large measure of me may be going down a bad path.