FrankAdamek comments on The I-Less Eye - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wnoise 29 March 2010 04:44:11PM *  2 points [-]

I believe in continuity of substance, not similarity of pattern

Are there any actual predictions that would be different with "continuity of substance" as the standard for identity rather than "similarity of composition"?

What does continuity of substance even mean with respect to Fock spaces or the path-integral formulation? All electrons (or protons, etc) are literally descended from all possible others.

Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 01 April 2010 02:24:21AM 1 point [-]

Are there any actual predictions that would be different

These "subjective anticipations" are different, because I don't try to think of my copies as me.

What does continuity of substance even mean

Discussed here.