You said in this case you’d be inclined to accept that either you were a copy, or someone was playing a trick on me to make you think so. Which makes sense.
Would your duplicate be equally inclined to do the same thing in the same case?
If so… then why would your duplicate claim to be the original? If not… what accounts for the difference?
In a world that has duplicators, my duplicate would not claim to be original without evidence one way or the other.
In our real world, if a copy of me were made using “magic”, both versions would believe themselves to be the original (at least at first). I had this kind of very specific scenario in mind when I said both would claim to be original, but did not explain this in the earlier comment (inferential distance and all that).
OK, now I’m confused.
You said in this case you’d be inclined to accept that either you were a copy, or someone was playing a trick on me to make you think so. Which makes sense.
Would your duplicate be equally inclined to do the same thing in the same case?
If so… then why would your duplicate claim to be the original?
If not… what accounts for the difference?
Yes, my duplicate would think the same way as me.
In a world that has duplicators, my duplicate would not claim to be original without evidence one way or the other.
In our real world, if a copy of me were made using “magic”, both versions would believe themselves to be the original (at least at first). I had this kind of very specific scenario in mind when I said both would claim to be original, but did not explain this in the earlier comment (inferential distance and all that).