he’s planning on and im not joking
erasing your memories
replacing your memroies with someone else
same body
maybe he’s just really mad at his ex
So i get the full pain treatment again and again? That’s sick
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You’re Being Tortured In The Morning: Scenario 1
Right, that response makes sense. If you weren’t reassured by the knowledge that when the time comes for you to be tortured you’re not going to have any of your current memories, then it seems right you won’t be reassured just because you know you’re going to have somebody else’s thoughts and memories.
Statement 4
The mad professor now tells you that the new set of thoughts and impressions of your past will exactly match those of somebody who is currently alive, and in fact that they will be copied into your brain from the other person’s brain.
Are you reassured by this information?
Yes, I’m reassured
No, I’m not reassured
if he’s mad enough to set this up surely he can find his ex’s body
wrong one
Oh not memories though
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You’re Being Tortured In The Morning: Scenario 2
Okay, so given your two previous responses that’s the expected answer: you were not reassured by the knowledge that when the time comes for you to be tortured, you’ll have somebody else’s thoughts and memories, so it is surely right that you remain fearful, since there doesn’t seem to be any reason to think that it’ll make a difference whose memories you will come to have or how they will come to be in your brain. We’ll have more to say about this later, but for now we’ll just note that you’ve ended up no less fearful of the prospect of being tortured than you were before Professor Coine explained to you exactly what he was going to be doing.
We’ll return to the mad professor in a little while, but right now we have a different scenario for you to think about. This one also involves torture, but happily this time you have more control over what’s going to happen to you.
restraining order
Two people, A and B, are about to undergo an odd experience. The thoughts and memories of Person A will be extracted from their brain, which will then be wiped clean so that all the information that was previously stored there is erased. The same thing is simultaneously happening to Person B. Then the memories and thoughts of Person A will be transmitted into the brain of the body that was formerly B’s, and the memories and thoughts of Person B will be transmitted into the brain of the body that was formerly A’s. This means we’ll now have Body-Person A with the thoughts and memories of B, and Body-Person B with the thoughts and memories of A.
You are the original person A (i.e., your thoughts and memories are going to end up in Body-Person B). After the experiment has been completed, one body-person will be given a million dollars, the other body-person will be tortured. You want to get the reward, and avoid the torture. You get to choose which body-person is to be rewarded (and by extension, which is to be tortured). So what’s it to be?
Remember: You were originally Person A. Your thoughts and memories now only exist inside Body-Person B.
Reward Body-Person A, Torture Body-Person B
Reward Body-Person B, Torture Body-Person A
My precious
do you think a torturer cares about that
wasn’t this a mechanic in lfol
Are people actually able to read these Litten posts?
Thread moves so fast I just cba
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this feels obvious?
obviously reward body b who is now me
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maybe she’s in witness protection idfk
You’re Being Tortured In The Morning: Identity Confusion Syndrome
Bad news. In common with 69% of the 75671 people who have completed this activity, you are showing signs of Identity Confusion Syndrome!
In your case, the symptoms are as follows. You responded to the second scenario that you wanted to reward Body-Person B, which will have the consequence that Body-Person A will be tortured. This suggests that what you think is important in terms of your own identity is that Body-Person B now has your thoughts and memories: in effect, Body-Person B is now you. It follows, therefore, that Body-Person A is no longer you: partly because it isn’t obvious that you can be more than one person at the same time; and partly because Body-Person A no longer has your thoughts and memories - they have the thoughts and memories of the person who used to be Body-Person B. This is all perfectly sensible.
However, there is a problem: it doesn’t fit with the way you responded to the first scenario . The key thing here is that at the point at which they’re tortured, the person in the first scenario is in precisely the same situation as Body-Person A in the second scenario: both have the thoughts and memories of another person. You believe that Body-Person A in the second scenario is not you anymore. Therefore, by the logic of your response to Scenario 2, you should not have feared being tortured in Scenario 1, since the person being tortured would not have been you.
There is one caveat here, however: it is entirely possible you’re aware that there is this tension in your responses, but think the uncertainty surrounding issues to do with personal identity, and the conditions under which it endures, makes it impossible to be reassured in the circumstances described in Scenario 1. This is an entirely legitimate position to hold, of course, but it doesn’t undermine the diagnosis of Identity Confusion Syndrome, so much as confirm you’re suffering from it!
If it’s a level of pain high i haven’t reached yet I’d definitely take that over 1 mil
I’d play russian roulette with 1/6 for 1 mil though. Or 2/6 for 100 mil
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this quiz sucks
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