Well, I’m very forgetful, and I notice that I do happen to be myself so… :p
But yeah, I’ve bitten this bullet too, in my case, as a way to avoid the Boltzmann brain problem. (Roughly: “you” includes lots of information generated by a lawful universe. Any specific branch has small measure, but if you aggregate over all the places where “you” exist (say your exact brain state, though the real thing that counts might be more or less broad than this), you get more substantial measure from all the simple lawful universes that only needed 10^X coincidences to make you instead of the 10^Y coincidences required for you to be a Boltzmann brain.)
I think that what anthropically “counts” is most likely somewhere between conscious experience (I’ve woken up as myself after anesthesia), and exact state of brain in local spacetime (I doubt thermal fluctuations or path dependence matter for being “me”).
Well, I’m very forgetful, and I notice that I do happen to be myself so… :p
But yeah, I’ve bitten this bullet too, in my case, as a way to avoid the Boltzmann brain problem. (Roughly: “you” includes lots of information generated by a lawful universe. Any specific branch has small measure, but if you aggregate over all the places where “you” exist (say your exact brain state, though the real thing that counts might be more or less broad than this), you get more substantial measure from all the simple lawful universes that only needed 10^X coincidences to make you instead of the 10^Y coincidences required for you to be a Boltzmann brain.)
I think that what anthropically “counts” is most likely somewhere between conscious experience (I’ve woken up as myself after anesthesia), and exact state of brain in local spacetime (I doubt thermal fluctuations or path dependence matter for being “me”).
I consider “me” to be a mapping from environments to actions, and weigh others by their KL-divergence from me.