<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 9, 2025, 9:59 AM Keith Henson <<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM Jason Resch via extropy-chat<br>
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> The answer to these questions depends on which theory of personal identity is correct.<br>
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> So it isn't an idle question without consequences. Rather, the answer concerns what is for many people, quite important: continuing to exist in the world.<br>
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mention should be compared to the alternative of oblivion.</blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Exactly. The question is: do you experience life again as these new incarnations of yourself, or do you experience nothing (i.e., oblivion).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Or, to reverse the question, what is required to ensure you don't face oblivion? Is some form of continuity required, and if so what forms of continuity? Must there be material continuity, or is causal continuity sufficient? Or is continuity not needed at all, so long as the result is the same: a extent being that is like you?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Then if a being like you is enough, how exact must it be? You're not exactly the same as you were two weeks ago, is similarity within this two-week window sufficient? How many memories can be dropped or lost in the process before you cease to survive at all (and are back to oblivion)? Or might all memories be lost, and you could still survive (as your amnesiac clone)?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason </div><div dir="auto"></div></div>