My thoughts: Assuming there is no subjective experience after death (no afterlife or anything), then it is sort of trivial that subjective experience ends at death, so you don’t ever experience it.
Now, my read on your argument is that in a sufficiently big universe or multiverse, there will be many “mes” with exactly the same subjective experiences so far, and that whenever one (or a large number) of “mes” die there will be some others who are narrowly saved at the last moment, just as they wheeze their last breath an alien turns up and heals them or whatever. Or they were in a simulation the whole time or similar.
However, it remains the case that before the death there were N copies, and afterwards there were N-1. Its not like you “merged with” or “snapped into” the surviving ones. You are not causally propagating yourself into them. Its just you have accepted a world view where it is possible to likely that there are people arbitrarily similar to you.
My feeling is that its like this analogy. Imagine that in the near future all records of the works of Shakespeare (all of them, including all quotes) are lost forever. But that, it just so happens that by complete coincidence there are pebbles on a beach in another galaxy, that can be read in binary (dark/pale pebbles 1⁄0) to symbolise the full works of Shakespeare to the letter. Does that make it any less of a loss that the works were lost here on Earth?
This is quite similar to the “swampman” thought experiment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Davidson_(philosopher)).
My thoughts: Assuming there is no subjective experience after death (no afterlife or anything), then it is sort of trivial that subjective experience ends at death, so you don’t ever experience it.
Now, my read on your argument is that in a sufficiently big universe or multiverse, there will be many “mes” with exactly the same subjective experiences so far, and that whenever one (or a large number) of “mes” die there will be some others who are narrowly saved at the last moment, just as they wheeze their last breath an alien turns up and heals them or whatever. Or they were in a simulation the whole time or similar.
However, it remains the case that before the death there were N copies, and afterwards there were N-1. Its not like you “merged with” or “snapped into” the surviving ones. You are not causally propagating yourself into them. Its just you have accepted a world view where it is possible to likely that there are people arbitrarily similar to you.
My feeling is that its like this analogy. Imagine that in the near future all records of the works of Shakespeare (all of them, including all quotes) are lost forever. But that, it just so happens that by complete coincidence there are pebbles on a beach in another galaxy, that can be read in binary (dark/pale pebbles 1⁄0) to symbolise the full works of Shakespeare to the letter. Does that make it any less of a loss that the works were lost here on Earth?