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Comment author: chaosmage 18 February 2014 02:54:37PM 1 point [-]

I don't think we're going in circles. It is just that problems related to the Anthropic Trilemma aren't easy.

Pattern Identity Theory does not have a distinction between "me" and "something identical to me". You believe in the existence of such a distinction, so you want Pattern Identitfy Theory to not be true. So you are, quite rightly, pointing out the absurdities of Pattern Identity Theory: Sufficient changes being like "killing yourself" and other such nonsense.

I agree Pattern Identity Theory is false, if for entirely different reasons. I do not agree that the falsehood of Pattern Identity Theory means that the distinction exists.

Comment author: Tenoke 18 February 2014 02:58:29PM -2 points [-]

You believe in the existence of such a distinction, so you want Pattern Identitfy Theory to not be true.

I do? Since when?

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