I don’t think question of identity is relevant to physicalism at all.
Suppose it’s impossible to invert qualia without changing something physical in the brain. It’s still currious which one of two people I’d be in “creating a perfect copy” experiment.
Fore pure physicalist (I am not but some people on LW expressed this view) there is no meaningful first-person perspective: only third view is objective. So there is no “I” which somehow appears in one of two copies. From third objective view, both copies have the same information, and that’s all.
We don’t need to deny that there’s a meaningful first-person perspective, only that any particular first-person perspective is special (in this case, special in that it’s the ‘true’ continuation of the original). When a perfect copy is made, two meaningful first-person perspectives exist, they both see themselves as continuations of the original, and neither is more right or wrong than the other in any deep sense.
I still haven’t fully figured out the issues of consciousness and illusionism, but it seems I’m an illusionist. I doubt that inverted qualia is possible without changing the physical structure. But you understood my idea correctly — “the view from within” will be another one, not the same one. I’m glad I was able to convey this idea, ha.
I don’t think question of identity is relevant to physicalism at all.
Suppose it’s impossible to invert qualia without changing something physical in the brain. It’s still currious which one of two people I’d be in “creating a perfect copy” experiment.
Fore pure physicalist (I am not but some people on LW expressed this view) there is no meaningful first-person perspective: only third view is objective. So there is no “I” which somehow appears in one of two copies. From third objective view, both copies have the same information, and that’s all.
We don’t need to deny that there’s a meaningful first-person perspective, only that any particular first-person perspective is special (in this case, special in that it’s the ‘true’ continuation of the original). When a perfect copy is made, two meaningful first-person perspectives exist, they both see themselves as continuations of the original, and neither is more right or wrong than the other in any deep sense.
Yes, that’s exactly what I meant.
I still haven’t fully figured out the issues of consciousness and illusionism, but it seems I’m an illusionist. I doubt that inverted qualia is possible without changing the physical structure. But you understood my idea correctly — “the view from within” will be another one, not the same one. I’m glad I was able to convey this idea, ha.