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>* Though consciousness and its observations seems to follow only one path. This is a peculiarity outside the realm of physics. Of course physics can answer th
by AgentME 7y ago
>* Though consciousness and its observations seems to follow only one path. This is a peculiarity outside the realm of physics.
Of course physics can answer this: the human minds on the different branches can't physically interact. They can't share memories. Each one is going to remember experiencing only its own branch.
- paulddraper 7y agoSure, but why am "I" the one and not the other? Whether this is a problem or not depends on what your conception of consciousness/identity is. I see a conflict or unanswered problem there; you may not.
- AgentME 7y agoThere's multiple, and each of them have their own experiences since the split. The other versions of yourself are basically other people that just happen to share a part of your history. Wondering why you're a specific one of them and not the other seems equivalent to me to wondering why you're you and not some another person in our own world. I think it's an interesting question, but I'm not sure what an answer to it could possibly look like (since any answer that says why you're you somehow needs to work out differently for other people to explain why they're themselves too) which implies the question is malformed somehow. (If your consciousness were ... someone else, or even switched people it was tracking somehow, it's not like anyone would notice.)
- paulddraper 7y ago> seems equivalent to me to wondering why you're you and not some another person in our own world. Indeed.