I'm saying all future branches of me are, themselves, me. "I" am not a single pre-determined thread of experience from birth to death, I am the space of all potential paths from now on.
In answer to your question, my consciousness goes down both the Edinburgh route and the Glasgow route. Both Edinburgh me and Glasgow me are me. (Though Edinburgh me is not Glasgow me, nor vice versa — intransitivity yay). So I might say that in five years' time, I will be in both Edinburgh and Glasgow, but in 15 years' time, I will merely be in Edinburgh — I won't be dead in Glasgow because I cannot possibly be in an observable state where I am dead.
(If you ask Glasgow me, then I will cease to exist in another five years… there's no way for Glasgow me to become Edinburgh me. In fact, in Glasgow me's universe, Edinburgh me arguably does not even exist.)
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Date: 2009-01-21 08:27 pm (UTC)Who the hell else would it be if it isn't me? 8^)
I'm saying all future branches of me are, themselves, me. "I" am not a single pre-determined thread of experience from birth to death, I am the space of all potential paths from now on.
In answer to your question, my consciousness goes down both the Edinburgh route and the Glasgow route. Both Edinburgh me and Glasgow me are me. (Though Edinburgh me is not Glasgow me, nor vice versa — intransitivity yay). So I might say that in five years' time, I will be in both Edinburgh and Glasgow, but in 15 years' time, I will merely be in Edinburgh — I won't be dead in Glasgow because I cannot possibly be in an observable state where I am dead.
(If you ask Glasgow me, then I will cease to exist in another five years… there's no way for Glasgow me to become Edinburgh me. In fact, in Glasgow me's universe, Edinburgh me arguably does not even exist.)