… I anticipate my consciousness transferring to that far away not-copy with some probability
I confess to being confused about how the concept of “probability” is being used here (and in similar comments I’ve seen). Can you elaborate?
whatever you, before you undergo a copying procedure, anticipate happening to you (subjectively experiencing ending up in the grown body vs. ending up in the body that walked in, each with some respective probability)
Sorry, I guess I was not clear… I take this answer to be just pushing the problem back one irrelevant step, since my question applies to this scenario also!
I have now re-read the post. I’m afraid it didn’t help. Or rather, to be more precise—I conclude from it that using the concept of “probability” in this way is incoherent.
Basically, I think that Yu’el is wrong and De’da is right. (In fact, I would go further—I don’t even think that De’da’s answer concerning which way to bet makes a whole lot of sense… but this is a tangent, and one which brings in issues unrelated to “probability” pe se.)
I have now re-read the post. I’m afraid it didn’t help. Or rather, to be more precise—I conclude from it that using the concept of “probability” in this way is incoherent.
Basically, I think that Yu’el is wrong and De’da is right. (In fact, I would go further—I don’t even think that De’da’s answer concerning which way to bet makes a whole lot of sense… but this is a tangent, and one which brings in issues unrelated to “probability” pe se.)
Ah. I guess I’m not sure where to go from here, in that case.