I think that I can be consistent with charging you with attempted murder.
In your scenario, if the grenade is not in my favor; this particular instance of me will be dead. The fact that a bunch of copies collect $100 is of little value to the copy that my subjective experience occupied.
For instance, if Omega came up to me right now and said that he just slew some copies of me in other lines, than it is unclear how that event has affected me. Likewise if I die, and Omega tells my other copies, it seems like it is only this subjective branch that suffers.
So because the grenade can affect the current branch that I experience, I can object.
I think anyway, I may have misunderstood everything.
Also: I was very surprised to be the subject of a post. It has been interesting. =)
EDIT: Wouldn’t the grenade thought experiment be more accurate if the grenade only killed or gave out $100 to copies when thrown at me? The fact that it interacts with me and not just copies of me is where I get a disconnect.
I think that I can be consistent with charging you with attempted murder.
In your scenario, if the grenade is not in my favor; this particular instance of me will be dead. The fact that a bunch of copies collect $100 is of little value to the copy that my subjective experience occupied.
For instance, if Omega came up to me right now and said that he just slew some copies of me in other lines, than it is unclear how that event has affected me. Likewise if I die, and Omega tells my other copies, it seems like it is only this subjective branch that suffers.
So because the grenade can affect the current branch that I experience, I can object.
I think anyway, I may have misunderstood everything.
Also: I was very surprised to be the subject of a post. It has been interesting. =)
EDIT: Wouldn’t the grenade thought experiment be more accurate if the grenade only killed or gave out $100 to copies when thrown at me? The fact that it interacts with me and not just copies of me is where I get a disconnect.
Magical extraphysical subjective experience fact-of-the-matter anyone?
How is it magical? Or extra-physical?
All it requires is that the copy that survives is not the me that got annihilated in the grenade. I do not think this requires magic.
Like I said though, I may be misunderstanding something. In that case I would appreciate it if it were explained better.
I should do a post on this, rather than comments I think.