PHL232H1 Lecture : June 4 - B. Williams.docx
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B. williams the self and the future . They"re minds are put into one another. A & b are the persons who enter. A-body-person is the person who looks like a. Suppose, after the experiment, one of the two resultant persons, the a-body-person and the b-body- person will be given ,000 and the other one tortured. Suppose a chooses that the b-body-person gets the money and a-body-person gets tortured. Evidently, a and b before the experiment will know that the outcome they chose will either be the. It is clear, they can"t both get what they want one they want or the one they don"t want. Suppose the experimenter does the experiment and tortures the b-body-person. Then the b-body-person will not only complain of the unpleasant treatment but will complain that was not the outcome he chose, since he chose that the b-body person should be well treat.
