Indexical uncertainty implies that consciousness can travel through space and time in between equal substrates (if such thing even exists considering chaos theory). I think that’s a lot weirder than to simply assume that consciousness is rooted in the brain, in a single brain, and that at best a clone will feel exactly the same way you do, will even think he is you, but there’s no way you will be seeing through his eyes.
So yes, memory may not be everything. An amnesiac can still maintain a continuous personal identity, as long as he’s not an extreme case.
But I quite like your papers btw! Lots of interesting stuff.
Consciousness does not need to travel as it already there. Imagine two bottles with water. If one bootle is destroyed, the water remains in the other, it doesn’t need to travel.
Someone suggested to call this “unification theory of identity”.
It comes with cost: you have to assume that SSA and informational identity theory are wrong, and therefore some other weird things could turn true.
Indexical uncertainty implies that consciousness can travel through space and time in between equal substrates (if such thing even exists considering chaos theory). I think that’s a lot weirder than to simply assume that consciousness is rooted in the brain, in a single brain, and that at best a clone will feel exactly the same way you do, will even think he is you, but there’s no way you will be seeing through his eyes.
So yes, memory may not be everything. An amnesiac can still maintain a continuous personal identity, as long as he’s not an extreme case.
But I quite like your papers btw! Lots of interesting stuff.
Thanks!
Consciousness does not need to travel as it already there. Imagine two bottles with water. If one bootle is destroyed, the water remains in the other, it doesn’t need to travel.
Someone suggested to call this “unification theory of identity”.