To be honest I just shared it because I thought that it’s a funny dynamic + what I said in the comment above.
BTW, if such swaps were ever to become practical (maybe in some simpler form or between some future much simpler beings than humans), minds like Alice would quickly get exploited out of existence. So you could say that in such environments belief in “continuity of personhood” is non-adaptive.
I’m not sure what this thought experiment shows us other than the fact that these views of what constitutes identify are in fact different?
To be honest I just shared it because I thought that it’s a funny dynamic + what I said in the comment above.
BTW, if such swaps were ever to become practical (maybe in some simpler form or between some future much simpler beings than humans), minds like Alice would quickly get exploited out of existence. So you could say that in such environments belief in “continuity of personhood” is non-adaptive.