mindspillage comments on Acausal romance - Less Wrong

26 Post author: lukeprog 25 February 2012 09:13AM

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Comment author: mindspillage 26 February 2012 05:05:04AM 1 point [-]

This has just beat out Alan Sidelle's "The Answering Machine Paradox" (paywalled, sorry) as my favorite philosophical paper.

Comment author: lukeprog 28 February 2012 01:15:55AM 4 points [-]

Hey look! I "found" a copy that isn't paywalled.

Comment author: Multipartite 01 March 2012 12:45:25AM 0 points [-]

(Absent(?) thought after reading: one can imagine someone, through a brain-scanner or similar, controlling a robot remotely. One can utter, through the robot, "I'm not actually here.", where 'here' is where one is doing the uttering through the robot, and 'I' (specifically 'where I am') is the location of one's brain. The distinction between the claim 'I'm not actually here' and 'I'm not actually where I am' is notable. Ahh, the usefulness of technology. For belated communication, the part about intention is indeed significant, as with whether a diary is written in the present tense (time of writing) or in the past tense ('by the time you read this[ I will have]'...).) enjoyed the approach