hairyfigment comments on I notice that I am confused about Identity and Resurrection - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hairyfigment 16 November 2013 11:14:24PM 0 points [-]

But events conspired to combine particular bits of meat in particular ways, and those events could have conspired differently - and in each universe that they did so, there is another possible 'you'.

And I would identify less with them to the extent that their memories/histories differ.

Nevertheless, the "superstimulus" version of #2 might tempt me if it didn't seem like a guaranteed failure in practice.