CronoDAS comments on Causal Universes - Less Wrong

60 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 November 2012 04:08AM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 01 December 2012 06:19:50AM *  2 points [-]

(Even the billiard ball model of "classical" chemistry is enough to eliminate "individual particles" as the source of personal identity; you aren't made of the same atoms you were a year ago, because of eating, respiration, and other biological processes.)

Comment author: MugaSofer 01 December 2012 06:44:56AM 4 points [-]

There could be special "mind particles" in you brain and I can't believe I just said that.

Comment author: CronoDAS 01 December 2012 11:45:55PM 0 points [-]

(::shrug:: Well, that does seem logically possible, but it doesn't seem to be the way our biology works.)

Comment author: MugaSofer 03 December 2012 04:26:06AM 4 points [-]