in philosophies that assert there is ‘one shared consciousness’, they don’t mean we all think the same thoughts or have the same plans
So it’s like the same algorithm operating on different data?
On some level of abstraction this is both trivial and meaningless: at the bottom we all are just “particles following the same laws of physics”. The question is, can we make it more specific while it still remains true? How far?
if someone didn’t think a copy was identical, what part would be different? This thing is what I’m suggesting is the same for all persons.
So it’s like the same algorithm operating on different data?
To be clear, just the part about feeling like I’m “me”. I think it would feel very different to be an alien, but I expect I would feel the same way about being myself.
On some level of abstraction this is both trivial and meaningless: at the bottom we all are just “particles following the same laws of physics”
I agree about the triviality. Especially for the thesis that we all share one consciousness—that we are all a physical computation is both obvious and meaningless (everything is a physical computation) but it also means it doesn’t matter if that particular computation is displaced in space or time or copied—there’s nothing unique that doesn’t get carried over (if it’s true that all our senses of self are essentially the same computation).
So it’s like the same algorithm operating on different data?
On some level of abstraction this is both trivial and meaningless: at the bottom we all are just “particles following the same laws of physics”. The question is, can we make it more specific while it still remains true? How far?
That’s a great way to put it!
To be clear, just the part about feeling like I’m “me”. I think it would feel very different to be an alien, but I expect I would feel the same way about being myself.
I agree about the triviality. Especially for the thesis that we all share one consciousness—that we are all a physical computation is both obvious and meaningless (everything is a physical computation) but it also means it doesn’t matter if that particular computation is displaced in space or time or copied—there’s nothing unique that doesn’t get carried over (if it’s true that all our senses of self are essentially the same computation).