FWIW, I have a master’s degree in physics and I’m working to get a PhD.
Awesome. Please forgive my undeserved snark.
What do you mean by identity?
Honestly I’m not sure. I only envoke the concept of identity in response to nonsense arguments appearing on LessWrong. Normally when I say ‘identity’ i mean the concept of ‘self’ which is the whatever-it-is which experiences my perceptions, thoughts, inner monologues, etc, or whatever it is that gives rise to the experience of me. How this relates to distinguishability of particles in quantum mechanics, I don’t know.. which is kinda the point. When calculating probabilities, you treat two states as the same if they are indistinguishable … how this gets warped into explaining what I’d expect to experience while undergoing a destructive upload is beyond me.
Awesome. Please forgive my undeserved snark.
Honestly I’m not sure. I only envoke the concept of identity in response to nonsense arguments appearing on LessWrong. Normally when I say ‘identity’ i mean the concept of ‘self’ which is the whatever-it-is which experiences my perceptions, thoughts, inner monologues, etc, or whatever it is that gives rise to the experience of me. How this relates to distinguishability of particles in quantum mechanics, I don’t know.. which is kinda the point. When calculating probabilities, you treat two states as the same if they are indistinguishable … how this gets warped into explaining what I’d expect to experience while undergoing a destructive upload is beyond me.