I am You, and You are Me... Maybe

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I am You, and You are Me... Maybe

Postby EmbraceUnity on 2010-01-30T04:19:00

Hello everyone,

Just made a blog post that I think has potential applicability to fighting egoism. It only has a sliver of a chance of affecting those so-called "hardcore rationalists" who are egoist, but that is something I guess. Those who are just selfish and unthinking about it don't really apply here.

http://embraceunity.com/?p=413

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Re: I am You, and You are Me... Maybe

Postby Arepo on 2010-01-31T18:51:00

Ta EU. I think in some sense it's obviously true to a reductionist that I'm no more me than you. We're just arrangements of (wave/)particles that gradually change over time. Since the basic particles are all identical, it doesn't make any sense to see two patterns as having some metaphysical link - all we can say is that some are more similar than others. Ie I'm more similar to my future self than I am to you, but if we don't think similarity important elsewhere, there's no reason to in this particular respect.
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