From: Harvey Newstrom (harv@gate.net)
Date: Thu Jan 08 1998 - 07:40:58 MST
Wei Dai wrote:
> All of them would be me, but I would not be any of them. To reiterate,
> A is B if and only if A remembers being B, where A and B are mind states
> (or person-stages).
This is the old semantic problem that always comes up in this argument.
They are all "me", but not *this* me. If another me survives, do I care
that the current me dies?
-- Harvey Newstrom <harv@gate.net>
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