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Comment author: Eitan_Zohar 12 July 2015 12:06:34AM 2 points [-]

why care? Your measure may be tiny in absolute terms, but it will always seem like 1 to you.

Let's say that Dust Theory is not true. Every time you fall asleep, a demon comes to your bed and creates a trillion copies of you. These copies are wiped of memory and given new ones, then are thrust into universes where those memories make sense. They wake up as if they have always lived there. Are you OK with that? Because I'm not.

Dust theory can guarantee that "you" .. a mental state containing your memories up until now...would not suddenly start experiencing a weird world, ..... that is the essence of Egans argument against it....but doesn't suggest that remaining conscious would make any difference. You seem to think that consciousness exerts some force that "keeps things together", somehow, but dust theory is nowhere near so causal.

Why? And if I'm not actively aware of my memories, they don't really exist for me, do they?

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 12 July 2015 08:36:56PM 0 points [-]

Let's say that Dust Theory is not true. Every time you fall asleep, a demon comes to your bed and creates a trillion copies of you. These copies are wiped of memory and given new ones, then are thrust into universes where those memories make sense. They wake up as if they have always lived there. Are you OK with that? 

It seems zero-sum to me.

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