Arnold Zuboff

dybbuk

Is anybody familiar with Zuboff's work? In particular with his:

"Personal Identity and the Sleeping Beauty Problem" ?

He seems to be the first human to have thought it through. His logic is waterproof and the implications should revolutionize human civilization.

Black Swan

We are a discussion forum. Rather than merely pointing us to a link, would you please consider discussing a point or two made by Arnold Zuboff?

dybbuk

Zuboff's lecture, while taking two parallel paths arrives at one single result, so it is only one point that he is really making.

While the second path uses deductive reasoning to conclude that any individuation of personal identity is bound to fail, the first path proves by means of what is essentially mathematical induction that a definition of "I" is infinitely improbable.

If you have problems with the Sleeping Beauty Problem it might help if one first familiarizes oneself with another comparable problem of probability, for example the Monty Hall Problem.
As for the second path, it is merely a matter of paying attention to the lecture and following Zuboff's train of thought which admittedly is not always that easy.