even if i don’t fear being tortured it doesn’t make me more reassured. just like oh yeah fuck that other guy. what’s this quizmaker’s problem?
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i gtg now
this was
fun
just gonna leave us hanging?
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what else is there to do
4/6 for 500 mil and making that colleague into me
how will i know the end of this thrilling torture saga
we could put you in a box
oh was that the end of the thrilling torture saga
these quizzes suck
you want to make out with your colleagues?
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Hang On! Where Did I Go?
Probably the most common objection here will be that the two scenarios in this activity are not identical. In particular, people will likely complain that although it is true that in Scenario 1, Body-Person A (“you”) will be given a new set of thoughts and impressions of the past, which will exactly match those of somebody else who is currently alive (Person B), unlike in the case of the second scenario, there is no equivalent transfer in the opposite direction. In other words, although Body-Person A will have thoughts and memories that were originally those of Person B, there is no equivalent whereby Body-Person B will come to have the thoughts and memories of Person A (i.e., the thoughts and memories that were originally yours).
However, this point actually makes no difference in terms of whether or not you should have felt reassured about the prospect of being tortured in Scenario 1. If you think you become Body-Person B at the point at which your thoughts and memories are implanted into Body-Person B, then it follows that from the moment your thoughts and memories were replaced by implanted thoughts and memories, you should not have feared being tortured. The logic of this point can be broken down into three parts:
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If, as is suggested by the form of Scenario 1, your thoughts and memories are implanted into Body-Person B as the final act in the series of acts - that is, after Person B’s thoughts and memories have been implanted into Body-Person A (i.e., into “you”) - then there is absolutely no change in Body-Person A at the point at which you become Body-Person B (remember, by this point, Body-Person A already has Person B’s thoughts and memories), which might explain how they could move from being you to not being you at precisely that moment. Therefore, it follows they were not you immediately prior to you becoming Body-Person B.
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If Body-Person A is not you immediately prior to your thoughts and memories being implanted into Body-Person B, then it follows they were not you at any point after your original thoughts and memories were replaced. This is because no change occurred to Body-Person A after this point. All that happened is you learned more about where the implanted thoughts and memories came from.
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Moreover, even if Body-Person A’s implanted thoughts and memories had changed with respect to their source after this point - so, for example, perhaps at one stage their memories had been fictitious and then at the next stage those of a real person - it still couldn’t have made the difference between them being you and not being you, since the source of their memories could not be crucial in this respect (assuming, of course, that you were not yourself the source of the implanted memories - i.e., that you had not been “reintroduced” into what had been your body originally). To put it simply, whether or not Body-Person A’s implanted thoughts and memories come from Henry VII or Henry VIII is neither here nor there in terms of whether Body-Person A is you or not.
Of course, if Body-Person A is not you from the moment your thoughts and memories are replaced by implanted thoughts and memories, and if it’s true that you only became Body-Person B at the point at which your thoughts and memoires were planted into Body-Person B, then it does raise the question as to where exactly you’d disappeared to in between times…
Why did I just sit here for an hour
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proceeds to not return to the mad professor
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they’re gonna lose it when they find out professor isn’t in s&v
welcome to the cookie thread experience
i ask myself this every day
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this is discrimination
chloe would you eat the drowning kid
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what are they drowning in
soup?
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