I actually don’t endorse a lot of these posts’ content, but it’s more efficient to work from a common background. Being more specific in your questions or statements could also push against the kind of beside-the-point responses you got to this post. For example, a lot of discussion of identity has problems with using words in unclear sense or with unclear significance for the arguments, words such as “same”, “consciousness”, “copy”, “anticipation”, etc.
For previous discussion of issues related to personal identity on LW see these posts, with references and comments:
The Anthropic Trilemma
The I-Less Eye
An attempt to dissolve subjective expectation and personal identity
I actually don’t endorse a lot of these posts’ content, but it’s more efficient to work from a common background. Being more specific in your questions or statements could also push against the kind of beside-the-point responses you got to this post. For example, a lot of discussion of identity has problems with using words in unclear sense or with unclear significance for the arguments, words such as “same”, “consciousness”, “copy”, “anticipation”, etc.