Manfred comments on How many people am I? - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Manfred 15 December 2014 06:11PM

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Comment author: Manfred 15 December 2014 11:53:57PM 1 point [-]

The key property of me in this case is the anthropic one - 'my' existence allows me to infer things about causes of my existence.

Comment author: Dentin 17 December 2014 05:48:49PM 0 points [-]

Also, I just now noticed that you -did not answer the question-, and that it's a critically important question. How do you define the term 'person', as questioned above? That definition has nothing whatsoever to do with anthopic properties or inference.

Comment author: Dentin 17 December 2014 05:46:46PM 0 points [-]

I don't see that as being a valid property. Your existence purely in isolation does not allow you to infer anything. Did you mean something more along the lines of "'my' existence in addition to other information X allows me to infer things..." instead? If so, it would be helpful if you clarified exactly which other information is involved.

Comment author: L29Ah 16 December 2014 07:50:05AM 0 points [-]

It does not as you don't obtain any world properties that 'your' existence should reflect with such a definition.