[extropy-chat] Indexical Uncertainty

Russell Wallace russell.wallace at gmail.com
Mon Oct 16 23:55:05 UTC 2006


On 10/16/06, Robin Hanson <rhanson at gmu.edu> wrote:
>
> I was just following Lee's notation.   A better name might be
> "Index#2923".
> But it is more about minds than bodies.   You know you are a mind, but you
> might not know which body that corresponds to.
>

To see why it doesn't make sense to say "I might not be me", consider that
fundamentally there is nothing ontologically privileged about one's past and
future selves as opposed to other people. Do you think it makes sense to ask
"why am I currently my current self as opposed to my 10 year old self or my
70 year old self?"
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