= 27d567bc2d48d9f40e9ccc20ea370b15)
linkhyrule5 comments on I notice that I am confused about Identity and Resurrection - Less Wrong
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
= 783df68a0f980790206b9ea87794c5b6)
Loading…= b715d02e85f7b3b4ae65ca3d3e450868)
Subscribe to RSS Feed
Powered by Reddit
= f037147d6e6c911a85753b9abdedda8d)
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
Comments (80)
Both questions seem to boil down to the hard question of continuity-of-consciousness. When I say I want someone resurrected, I mean that I want the do-what-I-mean equivalent of pressing "play" on a paused movie: someone resuming their life as if they had never left it.
Can you provide some examples of what "resuming their life as if they had never left it" looks like?
Right now, the image in my mind is (e.g.) I wake up in the morning, make lunch plans with my husband, start working on the presentation for my client, die, am resurrected ten years later, finish the presentation for that client, and have lunch with my husband... is that what you have in mind as well?
That would be ideal. In practice, I would settle for "die, am resurrected ten years later, suffer a week's worth of culture shock, am re-hired (or, if we're past the Singularity, go do something interesting), have lunch with my cooperating husband", etc.
Fair enough; thanks for clarifying.
For my own part, I think the "ideal" version would terrify me, but the settle-for version I could tolerate.