[ExI] Fwd: Open Individualism

[Adrian Tymes]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 10:03 AM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Would you care to name which other possibility that is missing aside from
> these three?
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UvJ5X8ovzz6ZrJJWKDoiUvj2g6p6H6p-nUz1XdDt6aU/edit#slide=id.g2ac585a35ce_0_43
>

That a person is defined by something other than observer-moments.  In
theory this is closed individualism (as each person contains a set of zero
or more, potentially more than one, observer-moments), except that any
given observer-moment could belong to more than one person, without open
individualism's "all observer-moments are shared" criteria.


> Exactly, you have come upon the central concern of personal identity. You
> have three options:
>
> 1. You are only a single isolated thought moment
> 2. You are a collection of some thought moments, but not others
> 3. You are all thought moments.
>

4. You are zero thought moments.  (Anything in you that appears to be a
thought moment, is in fact something else.)
2.5. You are a constantly changing collection of some thought moments, but
not others.  (As distinct from the static set your image in that GDoc
implies.)
3.5 Only those thought moments that are you, truly exist; there are no
actual thought moments other than yours.
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