I had tried head on attack on the question before and surpisingly it results in extreme complexity of answers. http://lesswrong.com/lw/nuc/identity_map/
I don’t find that surprising.
I think I should elaborate. To solve identity problem we should solve before several other problems:
Nature of reality including role of the observer in QM
Nature of consciousness and qualia, and other ideas connected with the question ’who is I”
Nature of human idea of identity which has social and biological basis
Correct decision theory which is able to deal with many copies situation
I had tried head on attack on the question before and surpisingly it results in extreme complexity of answers. http://lesswrong.com/lw/nuc/identity_map/
I don’t find that surprising.
I think I should elaborate. To solve identity problem we should solve before several other problems:
Nature of reality including role of the observer in QM
Nature of consciousness and qualia, and other ideas connected with the question ’who is I”
Nature of human idea of identity which has social and biological basis
Correct decision theory which is able to deal with many copies situation