kpreid comments on What makes you YOU? For non-deists only. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: kpreid 11 November 2009 12:51:43PM 1 point [-]

I'd accept the offer. (With some irrelevant-to-the-point-of-the-thought-experiment qualifications.)

The “subjective thread of experience” is a useful shortcut in thinking (note I don't mean that we consciously invent it), not an essential.