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<br><div><div>On Oct 16, 2006, at 4:55 PM, Russell Wallace wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On 10/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robin Hanson</b> <<a href="mailto:rhanson@gmu.edu">rhanson@gmu.edu</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I was just following Lee's notation. A better name might be "Index#2923".<br>But it is more about minds than bodies. You know you are a mind, but you<br>might not know which body that corresponds to.<br> </blockquote></div><br> 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?"<br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Yep. If it was high priority to contemplate such things I would retreat to a cave in the Himalayas. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>- s</div></body></html>