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Arnold Zuboff Quotes

born 1946 United States

Arnold Stuart Zuboff (born 1946) was an American philosopher who has worked on topics such as personal identity, philosophy of mind, ethics, metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of probability. He was the original formulator of the Sleeping Beauty problem and a view analogous to open individualism, which he terms "Universalism".

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We might express this as "all persons are I" or rather as "you and I are the same person".

An experience must be a universal across times as well as across brains. This experience of being you, here now, would be numerically the same whenever, as well as wherever, it was realized.

[I]nflicting pain as retribution for wrongs is a horrible mistake: The person wronged and the person punished are one and the same.

My 8 Big Ideas (2011)

We must see that all places, times and conscious organisms are equally "this one". For a failure to see this must distort our view by forcing us to accommodate in it what seems to be our own special objective status; and that awkward accommodation must then ruin any prospect of discovering the truly objective universal principles that govern the world.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arnold Zuboff (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.