steven0461 comments on Cryonics without freezers: resurrection possibilities in a Big World - Less Wrong

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Comment author: steven0461 06 April 2012 09:25:04PM *  2 points [-]

It's not clear to me. To get us to behave selfishly, evolution could have instilled false aliefs to the effect that other people's mental processes aren't as real as ours, in which case we may want to just disregard those. Even if there's no such issue, there's not necessarily any simple one-to-one mapping from urges to components of reflected preference, especially when the urges seem to involve concepts like "me" that are hard to extend beyond a low-tech human context. (If I recall correctly, on previous occasions when you've made this argument, you were thinking of "me" in terms of similarity in person-space, which is not as hard to make sense out of as the threads of experience being discussed in this thread.)