At which doubling would you cease being you? Or would it be an incremental process? What function links ‘number of doublings’ to ‘degree of me-ness’?
I don’t think we’re going anywhere useful with this. But I do know that if you get too tight on continuous personal identity and what that means, you start coming up with all sorts of paradoxes.
But that doesn’t mean that we should just give up on personal identity. The utility function is not up for grabs, as they say: if I consider it integral to my utility function that I don’t get significantly altered, then no amount of logical argument ought to persuade me otherwise.
At which doubling would you cease being you? Or would it be an incremental process? What function links ‘number of doublings’ to ‘degree of me-ness’?
I don’t think we’re going anywhere useful with this. But I do know that if you get too tight on continuous personal identity and what that means, you start coming up with all sorts of paradoxes.
But that doesn’t mean that we should just give up on personal identity. The utility function is not up for grabs, as they say: if I consider it integral to my utility function that I don’t get significantly altered, then no amount of logical argument ought to persuade me otherwise.