It’s possible that given sufficient reflection my position would change, but that’s possible with most any of my beliefs. I could probably find counterarguments to a strict dichotomy of “p-zombie or accidental suicide”, and there may be clever ways of stopping the lack of fear of death from propagating while still implementing some “automatic avoid death” reflex, similar to your ankle jerk reflex.
I don’t however see how the change could be identity-preserving, other than when the threshold for that is chosen to be sufficiently lax. I’d consider myself a different person, which is why I thought of the lobotomy comparison. (Of course I could be artificially made to feel like the same person, but my present self would still object to that, same as to the endless heroin drip. Gandhi wouldn’t take the pill turning him into a mindless killer even if you told him that the killer-Gandhi would think he’d always been that way.)
Just wondering, suppose someone (say, at a meetup) offered you $100 to come up with a counterargument you would find convincing, would you be able to?
It’s possible that given sufficient reflection my position would change, but that’s possible with most any of my beliefs. I could probably find counterarguments to a strict dichotomy of “p-zombie or accidental suicide”, and there may be clever ways of stopping the lack of fear of death from propagating while still implementing some “automatic avoid death” reflex, similar to your ankle jerk reflex.
I don’t however see how the change could be identity-preserving, other than when the threshold for that is chosen to be sufficiently lax. I’d consider myself a different person, which is why I thought of the lobotomy comparison. (Of course I could be artificially made to feel like the same person, but my present self would still object to that, same as to the endless heroin drip. Gandhi wouldn’t take the pill turning him into a mindless killer even if you told him that the killer-Gandhi would think he’d always been that way.)
Why do you ask, if I may ask?