lsparrish comments on Optimism versus cryonics - Less Wrong

34 Post author: lsparrish 25 October 2010 02:13AM

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Comment author: lsparrish 28 October 2010 02:56:49AM 3 points [-]

One way to resolve the dissonance this produces is to quit identifying with yourself from one point in time to the next. Me-from-yesterday can be seen as a different self (though sharing most identity characteristics like values, goals, memories, etc.) from me-from-today.

Comment author: MartinB 28 October 2010 03:12:29AM 0 points [-]

I dislike this concept, but that is what with. Identity breaks down, and personhood ends.