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>From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy,sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Re: red light / blue light scenario
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Date: 21 Dec 91 04:03:15 GMT
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In article <1991Dec21.015025.14261@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers) writes:
>In article <1991Dec20.004238.11206@smsc.sony.com> markc@smsc.sony.com (Mark Corscadden) writes:

>>  has a red light on the ceiling above it.  At this instant a perfect
>>  physical duplicate of you is created instantaneously and placed on the
>>  bed next to you.  You are not physically effected in any way whatsoever.

>So "how will it feel for me?"  Can't say.  All one can say is that there
>will be a blue-experiencer at t1, and a blue-experiencer and a
>red-experiencer at t2.  Of course this runs counter to a strong
>intuition that P2's experience will be *my* (i.e. P1's) experience in
>a way that P3's isn't, but when one thinks about it, the grounds for

  Strange.  Perhaps I have an unusual intuition.

  My intuition is that there will be two "me"s, completely indistinguishable,
except that one is seeing red, and the other blue.  I can't develop any
intuitive feeling that one of these is more really me than the other.

  (If you ever get the hardware working reliably, I volunteer for the
experiment).

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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