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Eitan_Zohar comments on The Consequences of Dust Theory. - Less Wrong Discussion

-2 Post author: Eitan_Zohar 09 July 2015 03:53PM

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Comment author: Eitan_Zohar 10 July 2015 01:08:29AM *  -1 points [-]

My consciousness only follows one path, so yes, an indeterminate future Eitan Zohar will in fact be me. Since I'm no longer awake to keep the measure of my dominant reality stable, I'm worried that my unconscious mind will create it instead.

Comment author: gjm 10 July 2015 09:42:40AM 2 points [-]

I don't see how you can coherently both endorse "Dust Theory" and also hold that "my consciousness only follows one path".

Comment author: Eitan_Zohar 10 July 2015 03:20:32PM *  -1 points [-]

Yes, it does. In the future, I will not be perceiving events from other quantum branches. According to Dust Theory, the branches of me will continue experiencing events, but that isn't any good once I've separated from them!

All I'm saying is that a large measure of me may be going down a bad path.