In many worlds, you can take your current self and uniquely trace it backward. But there is no such thing as your singular self in the future. There will be multiple people in the future who consider your past to be their past. What vocabulary words do you want to use to describe that? You know, go ahead. Go nuts.
Welcome to the July 2023 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number -- based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good -- and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic.
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Blog post with questions and transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/07/03/ama-july-2023/
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