In fact while it may seems to look like that I am listing all possible solution to find one true one as mine mentioning of AIXI imply, it is not so.
I was going to dissolve intuitive notion of identity into elements and after use these elements to construct useful models. These model may be complex, and it may consists of many blocks, evolving over time and interacting.
But it is clear to me (if soul doesn’t exist) than there is no real identity. Identity is only useful construction, and I am free to update it depending of my needs and situation, or not use it at all.
The idea of identity is (was) useful to solve some practical tasks, but sometimes it makes these tasks more obscure.
Yes, numerical identity is not “consciousness identity”, it is about “exactly the same thing”.
Consciousness identity is answering question “what I will experience in the next moment of time”. There are a lot of people who claim that “exact copy of me is not me”.
I used the following “copy test” to check personal ideas about identity: “Would you agree to be instantly replaced by your copy?” many people say: “No, I will be dead, my copy is not me”.
Update: But there is one thought experiment that is very strongly argue against idea that identity is only a model. Imagine that I am attached to rails and expecting that in one hour a train will cut my leg.
If identity would be only a model I would be able to change it in a way that it will be not me in the next 60 minutes. I could think about millions very similar beings, about billion of my copies in the parallel worlds, about open identity and closed individualism. But I will not escape from rail.
My model of identity is in firmware of my brain, and results from long term evolutionary process.
In fact while it may seems to look like that I am listing all possible solution to find one true one as mine mentioning of AIXI imply, it is not so.
I was going to dissolve intuitive notion of identity into elements and after use these elements to construct useful models. These model may be complex, and it may consists of many blocks, evolving over time and interacting.
But it is clear to me
(if soul doesn’t exist) than there is no real identity. Identity is only useful construction, and I am free to update it depending of my needs and situation, or not use it at all.The idea of identity is (was) useful to solve some practical tasks, but sometimes it makes these tasks more obscure.
Yes, numerical identity is not “consciousness identity”, it is about “exactly the same thing”.
Consciousness identity is answering question “what I will experience in the next moment of time”. There are a lot of people who claim that “exact copy of me is not me”.
I used the following “copy test” to check personal ideas about identity: “Would you agree to be instantly replaced by your copy?” many people say: “No, I will be dead, my copy is not me”.
Update: But there is one thought experiment that is very strongly argue against idea that identity is only a model. Imagine that I am attached to rails and expecting that in one hour a train will cut my leg.
If identity would be only a model I would be able to change it in a way that it will be not me in the next 60 minutes. I could think about millions very similar beings, about billion of my copies in the parallel worlds, about open identity and closed individualism. But I will not escape from rail.
My model of identity is in firmware of my brain, and results from long term evolutionary process.