The Relationship Between Personhood and Fundamental Physics

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There is literally zero sense in which those, those different copies of you, constitute a coherent physical system. They are separate, non interacting things. It's not like there are many copies of you and one of them is the real you. That's the right way to think about it. So to go back to peter's question, well, what about these philosophers who say that personhood is the primary and only unquestionable knowledgei have? They're wrong. I me onothing as any unquestionable knowledge that you have. But i certainly don't think that it' certainly not primary when you consider the relationship of personhood to fundamental physics.

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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