Thread: Modern Pascal's Wager adaptation: For real.
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Old 05-16-2007, 05:57 PM
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Default Re: Modern Pascal\'s Wager adaptation: For real.
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The argument falls down because the person I will become in 10000 years time is not me. I gain nothing though I probably would thank the person I used to be.


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Ah! Finally a worthy answer [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

But then I ask you, what's the difference if the time is 10 years? 1 year? 5 minutes? You're not the same person you will be 5 minutes from now, so why bother living anything but an extremely hedonistic life?

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as I said in my other response, I'm going with a diminishing sameness over time (though it has problems) and Hedonism is absolutely correct bearing that in mind.

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