Emily Adlam

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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · Jacob Barandes and Emily Adlam: Why Many Worlds Is Nonsensical · 25 Jun 2025 podcast

And I think you know, I th I think it's as soon as you you say to someone that you're going to put them through something which is qualitatively quite similar to death, that gets all the emotional reactions and resonances we have around death going.

And so it it would be difficult, I think, to avoid having those kinds of emotional reactions.

Um even even if I do believe that in in sort of some uh

l less emotional sense that this is no different from going to sleep.

Uh we ha the associations we have with death and sleep are are very different from each other and so those are gonna feel different.

Yes.

I mean I think obviously the the types of causal relationships are are different here.

There's not this the same kind of causation.

Um and so I mean the the question I guess you're asking is ask are some kinds of causation more relevant than others for establishing personal identity over time?

And I think not because I think there is no such thing as personal identity over time.

I think there's no sort of fact of the matter about that.

All that's all that can be said in the situation is that you can describe what the causal relations are, you can tell me what the physical facts are.

I can make a decision about whether or not I'm happy to accept that that that other person as a future version of me, but ultimately that's a choice that I'm making.

There's no sort of fact over and above the the physical facts about whether that really is me or not.

We're gonna give you a hard problem.

I think the hard problem is very hard.

The hard problem is is is difficult for me because

The thing I find I find very difficult about the hard problem is there are, you know, many difficult problems in philosophy and in physics, and for most of those problems I have

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