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Voltairina comments on Dissolving the Thread of Personal Identity - Less Wrong Discussion

12 Post author: Skeptityke 25 May 2014 06:36AM

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Comment author: Voltairina 26 May 2014 04:11:35PM -1 points [-]

Because for any set of facts that I hold in my attention about myself, those facts could happen in a myriad of worlds other than the ones in which the rest of my memories took place and still be logically consistent - if my memories even were perfectly accurate and consistent, which they aren't in the first place.