um, I fear that we call this “psychosis”, and it has significantly worse problems.
Other names for it when philosophically adopted are Empty Individualism or Open Individualism. When religiously obtained: Hinduism or Buddhism.
The point not being that either or any of these things are ‘true’ or ‘false’ in their own right—it being that indexical uncertainty can be induced in a forward looking way which does not necessarily require having a confused historical notion over what one has been—only uncertainty about whom one will find out they are.
For example, are you the real world version of you, or the version of you that exists to make Omega’s prediction? If you have ever had some form of amnesia and retroactively re-assembled an interval of self, one can posit that indexicality is not exclusionary in a forward looking way solely based off retrospective boundaries. If we were to merge minds, I’m sure we would feel, after the fact, that both of us were really ‘me’ or ‘you’, all along.
Thanks, Dagon!
Other names for it when philosophically adopted are Empty Individualism or Open Individualism. When religiously obtained: Hinduism or Buddhism.
The point not being that either or any of these things are ‘true’ or ‘false’ in their own right—it being that indexical uncertainty can be induced in a forward looking way which does not necessarily require having a confused historical notion over what one has been—only uncertainty about whom one will find out they are.
For example, are you the real world version of you, or the version of you that exists to make Omega’s prediction? If you have ever had some form of amnesia and retroactively re-assembled an interval of self, one can posit that indexicality is not exclusionary in a forward looking way solely based off retrospective boundaries. If we were to merge minds, I’m sure we would feel, after the fact, that both of us were really ‘me’ or ‘you’, all along.