If someone built a robot that appeared, to everyone User:JamesAndrix knows, to be User:JamesAndrix, but was smarter, more productive, less resource-intensive, etc., then User:JamesAndrix would not change positions about User:JamesAndrix’s continued existence.
So does that make User:JamesAndrix’s arguments for User:JamesAndrix’s continued existence just a case of motivated cognition?
Because User:JamesAndrix is a human, and humans typically believe that they should continue existing, even when superior versions of them could be produced.
If User:JamesAndrix were atypical in this respect, User:JamesAndrix would say so.
Huh? Define superior.
If someone built a robot that appeared, to everyone User:JamesAndrix knows, to be User:JamesAndrix, but was smarter, more productive, less resource-intensive, etc., then User:JamesAndrix would not change positions about User:JamesAndrix’s continued existence.
So does that make User:JamesAndrix’s arguments for User:JamesAndrix’s continued existence just a case of motivated cognition?
Why do you think that?
Because User:JamesAndrix is a human, and humans typically believe that they should continue existing, even when superior versions of them could be produced.
If User:JamesAndrix were atypical in this respect, User:JamesAndrix would say so.