this feels obvious?
obviously reward body b who is now me
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maybe sheâs in witness protection idfk
Youâre Being Tortured In The Morning: Identity Confusion Syndrome
Bad news. In common with 69% of the 75671 people who have completed this activity, you are showing signs of Identity Confusion Syndrome!
In your case, the symptoms are as follows. You responded to the second scenario that you wanted to reward Body-Person B, which will have the consequence that Body-Person A will be tortured. This suggests that what you think is important in terms of your own identity is that Body-Person B now has your thoughts and memories: in effect, Body-Person B is now you. It follows, therefore, that Body-Person A is no longer you: partly because it isnât obvious that you can be more than one person at the same time; and partly because Body-Person A no longer has your thoughts and memories - they have the thoughts and memories of the person who used to be Body-Person B. This is all perfectly sensible.
However, there is a problem: it doesnât fit with the way you responded to the first scenario . The key thing here is that at the point at which theyâre tortured, the person in the first scenario is in precisely the same situation as Body-Person A in the second scenario: both have the thoughts and memories of another person. You believe that Body-Person A in the second scenario is not you anymore. Therefore, by the logic of your response to Scenario 2, you should not have feared being tortured in Scenario 1, since the person being tortured would not have been you.
There is one caveat here, however: it is entirely possible youâre aware that there is this tension in your responses, but think the uncertainty surrounding issues to do with personal identity, and the conditions under which it endures, makes it impossible to be reassured in the circumstances described in Scenario 1. This is an entirely legitimate position to hold, of course, but it doesnât undermine the diagnosis of Identity Confusion Syndrome, so much as confirm youâre suffering from it!
If itâs a level of pain high i havenât reached yet Iâd definitely take that over 1 mil
Iâd play russian roulette with 1/6 for 1 mil though. Or 2/6 for 100 mil
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this quiz sucks
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even if i donât fear being tortured it doesnât make me more reassured. just like oh yeah fuck that other guy. whatâs this quizmakerâs 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 (âyouâ) 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 Bâs thoughts and memories have been implanted into Body-Person A (i.e., into âyouâ) - 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 Bâs 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 Aâs 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 couldnât 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 âreintroducedâ into what had been your body originally). To put it simply, whether or not Body-Person Aâs 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 itâs 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 youâd disappeared to in between timesâŚ
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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