Human beings are temporal dynamics of Shannon information in physical states. There is no "stuff." Stuff is an illusion generated by a brain adapted to deal with complex regularities of the macroscopic world as if they were substances. You are dynamics of information in a probability distribution, dynamics distributed over an unimaginable number of changes and interactions, stretched over an incredibly long time period. If you are the same person you were 10/43 Planck increments ago, even though all of the matter waves in your body have shifted places, why would you not be the same person after a slightly different interation within the same huge wavefunction?
-Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, mindfuck, probabilities, matter
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