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How does this square with chaos theory, which models behaviour that diverges greatly due to infinitesimal changes at the start?
How the identity of a single person squares with it? Wouldn't a tiny change convert me into somebody else?
At no point has one cubic centimeter of air been exactly like another cubic centimeter of air.
At no point you are exactly the same, as you were seconds ago.
Oh I see what you meant now. You don't become somebody else, which implies there's an existing mental state that has existed before- you become somebody new.
No, not somebody new. The same consciousness algorithm is running and I am indistinguishable from the consciousness algorithm.
It is not *I am you", it is I am equal consciousness and You are equal consciousness. Therefor I am you.
For you can change every part of your body and every piece of your memories. Until you are self aware, it's you. Even with a different body somewhere else.
Just wondering, does Less Wrong have a procedure for understanding concepts that are incredibly distant from direct experience?