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In fact the planets aren't orbiting the sun. They're orbiting the galactic center, and the sun just happens to disturb their orbits a bit: https://youtu.be/0jHsq36_NTU?si=VbRsJ_SyA…

Companies can buy the monopoly of violence from governments and kill you if you're inconvenient to them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Massacre Read more history.

> I would say that both A and B would claim to be X and have the "continuous"[1] experience to be X while agreeing that they are distinct persons. I think that the question of whet…

Ok, but then I fear you're either contradicting yourself, or addressing a point I didn't make. Let me restate: 1. energy123 says that, if we completely annihilate the body of X and…

> If this actually happened, would the 'I' that replaced you be any wiser. How do you know this hasn't happened to you already? Maybe multiple times per second? If this is true, th…

> if I draw a square on a piece of paper, and then light that paper on fire, I haven’t destroyed the concept of a square. I can always draw an identical square on another sheet of …

Sorry, perhaps I just don't know what "monism" truly means, I admit my ignorance, but if we just limit ourselves to the mind-body problem, I just meant that a dualist position cons…

Just because the brain doesn't form memories while you sleep, doesn't mean you have ceased to exist. You have probably forgot many things that have happened to you today: does that…

> What if they destroyed and reassembled only 0.5% of your brain? What's your dividing line? 0.36%? 0.0188%? Apologies, I read too quickly and skipped over this. See one of my sibl…

None of these scenarios would result in "me" from a monist perspective. The destruction is a discontinuity point, I died there and then, and then the next planck moment a new being…

I admit that this is a troubling problem with the position that I stated, but I don't think it's a complete takedown. The easiest rebuttal would be to simply say that continuity is…

A true monist would realize that any experience of the uploaded being that received a copy of the brain is not felt by the original brain that has been copied. This is a fact and i…

I don't know if this is discussed by actual serious philosophers, but consider the issue of "mind uploading." I have seen very staunch monists seriously discussing that, if you wer…

You do realize that the literal first factor that is used to calculate that index is GDP per capita, right? And that life expectancy (another factor) correlates with the GDP of the…

Not a Bond one, but there's already a movie about it: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1879016/

This and the other top comments are right that sharing an artist is only the crudest (and very noisy) way to estimate actual influence. I suppose one way to improve it would be to …

Thank you for the kind words! I'll take a look at your post. And feel free to get in touch in case you'd like to collaborate on this.

All correct, it was also one point raised by the reviewers. They had some suggestions about temporal centrality, but in the end I didn't followup on that because this centrality an…