To demonstrate this position imagine this: You are Elon Musk instead of whoever you actually are. Here it is not suggesting that your physical body and Elon’s switch places. The world is still objectively the same. But instead of experiencing it from the perspective of your current body (e.g. in my case that of Dadadarren’s), now you do it from that of Elon’s. The subjective experience felt and consciousness accessible is now from the Billionaire’s physical point of view instead of your current case, viz. you are Elon.
It’s not clear what you mean here. As we are talking about the question “Which future mind is me?”, could you make the example in its terms? For instance, consider this:
Dadadarren and Elon Musk participate in an experiment where their brains are swapped between their bodies. Both go to sleep, then the operation is performed and then they awake. Dadadarren’s first person perspective goes to sleep in Dadadarren’s body and awakens in Elon Musk’s, while having memories of being Dadadarren. As a result both perspective inhabitiung bodies of Dadadarren and Elon Musk notice the change.
Nothing has physically changed about the brains and body of Elon Musk or Dadadarren, even though Dadadarren’s and Elon Musks first person perspective were swapped. Now it’s not Elon Musk’s perspective who awakens in Elon Musk’s body, but Dadadarren’s. However noone notices anything. When Elon Musk’s body awakens, its perspective remembers being Elon Musk and not Dadadarren because memories are physical and therefore were not changed.
In the 2. case how do we know that anything happened at all? How do we know that the perspectives were swapped? Or, for that matter, how do we know that all perspective are not constantly being swapped a hundred times every second? Here “First person perspective” seems to be not just epiphenomenon but epiepiphenomenon, completely irrelevant to anything even to conscious experience of a person in question. Which is probably not what you meant, so I’m a bit at a loss.
Suffice to say, thinking about such scenario doesn’t make me see the question “Why is that you are you and I am me?” as less of a tautology.
It’s not clear what you mean here. As we are talking about the question “Which future mind is me?”, could you make the example in its terms? For instance, consider this:
Dadadarren and Elon Musk participate in an experiment where their brains are swapped between their bodies. Both go to sleep, then the operation is performed and then they awake. Dadadarren’s first person perspective goes to sleep in Dadadarren’s body and awakens in Elon Musk’s, while having memories of being Dadadarren. As a result both perspective inhabitiung bodies of Dadadarren and Elon Musk notice the change.
Nothing has physically changed about the brains and body of Elon Musk or Dadadarren, even though Dadadarren’s and Elon Musks first person perspective were swapped. Now it’s not Elon Musk’s perspective who awakens in Elon Musk’s body, but Dadadarren’s. However noone notices anything. When Elon Musk’s body awakens, its perspective remembers being Elon Musk and not Dadadarren because memories are physical and therefore were not changed.
In the 2. case how do we know that anything happened at all? How do we know that the perspectives were swapped? Or, for that matter, how do we know that all perspective are not constantly being swapped a hundred times every second? Here “First person perspective” seems to be not just epiphenomenon but epiepiphenomenon, completely irrelevant to anything even to conscious experience of a person in question. Which is probably not what you meant, so I’m a bit at a loss.
Suffice to say, thinking about such scenario doesn’t make me see the question “Why is that you are you and I am me?” as less of a tautology.