Is There Reason to Restrict the Idea of Me to Just the World I Experience?

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If there are many worlds, is there reason to restrict the idea of me to just the world i experience? Are we like a tree with many branches, but only experiencing one branch? peter blankenheim says. I think you said this is because the many worlds are strong emergence phenomena and don't exist in fundamental physics. The point here is that sonhood is not anywhere to be found infundamental physics. Even if there was only one world, it would still be true that personhood is a higher level emergent phenomena.

Welcome to the June 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! We are inaugurating a slightly different publication schedule, in which these monthly AMA will take the place of one of the regular Monday episodes, rather than being in addition to all of them. A slight tweak that will hopefully make my obligations a little more manageable.

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