Would you willingly go back in time and re-live your life from the beginning, with all the knowledge you have now? Say, knowing what stocks to purchase, what cryptocurrencies are worth buying and when, being able to breeze through education and skip ahead in life, and all the other advantages you would have?
If the answer to that is yes, then observe that this is exactly the same thing.
The point of this being that you don’t actually think of past-you, present-you, and future-you as you in the same sense. You’ll happily overwrite past-you with present-you, but you’d see it as a problem if future-you overwrote present-you, so far as to be equatable to dying.
You’ll happily overwrite past-you with present-you
Why do you say that? I don’t see it as overwriting. I am 28 years old. The way I see it is, I live 28 years, then I go back to the time I was born, then I re-live those 28 years, and so I get to be alive for 56 years.
Would you willingly go back in time and re-live your life from the beginning, with all the knowledge you have now? Say, knowing what stocks to purchase, what cryptocurrencies are worth buying and when, being able to breeze through education and skip ahead in life, and all the other advantages you would have?
If the answer to that is yes, then observe that this is exactly the same thing.
The point of this being that you don’t actually think of past-you, present-you, and future-you as you in the same sense. You’ll happily overwrite past-you with present-you, but you’d see it as a problem if future-you overwrote present-you, so far as to be equatable to dying.
Why do you say that? I don’t see it as overwriting. I am 28 years old. The way I see it is, I live 28 years, then I go back to the time I was born, then I re-live those 28 years, and so I get to be alive for 56 years.