I haven’t touched on personal identity—for clarity I’m not equating that with continuous experience nor am I even equating continuous instance distinctions with continuous experience at this point. (I guess I’m interpreting personal identity either like “self” or identity the way it’s used in “identity theft”—like a group of accounts and things like SSNs that places use to distinguish one person from another. I’m not using that term here and I’m not sure what you mean by it.).
I’m not trying to figure out whether my “self” maps to certain particles. I feel sure that “self” is copy-able (though I haven’t formally defined self yet). However, I am separating self from continuous experience (like you can see in my Elements of Death comment).
What I am trying to do is to figure out whether the continuous experience of my current instance is linked to specific particles. The reason I am asking that question is made apparent in my transporter failure scenario.
What motivates you to link personal identity to your specific particles? Any two atoms of the same type are perfectly indistinguishable.
I haven’t touched on personal identity—for clarity I’m not equating that with continuous experience nor am I even equating continuous instance distinctions with continuous experience at this point. (I guess I’m interpreting personal identity either like “self” or identity the way it’s used in “identity theft”—like a group of accounts and things like SSNs that places use to distinguish one person from another. I’m not using that term here and I’m not sure what you mean by it.).
I’m not trying to figure out whether my “self” maps to certain particles. I feel sure that “self” is copy-able (though I haven’t formally defined self yet). However, I am separating self from continuous experience (like you can see in my Elements of Death comment).
What I am trying to do is to figure out whether the continuous experience of my current instance is linked to specific particles. The reason I am asking that question is made apparent in my transporter failure scenario.