Manfred comments on Self-locating beliefs across identity fission - Less Wrong

1 Post author: lukeprog 03 March 2012 03:14AM

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Comment author: Manfred 03 March 2012 05:29:05PM 0 points [-]

Well, Fred believed that he was on earth. Should the clones not re-evaluate that belief? Somewhere they seem to have acquired new information.

Comment author: Locke 03 March 2012 05:37:33PM 0 points [-]

Well obviously they're going to need to draw new conclusions from new information. But the gist of the question is whether they should trust their original's conclusions about religion, politics, etc. And they should.