Pants-of-dog wrote:Yes, the future me would only exist as a concept if you killed the physical me. But it would still exist as a concept.
There would be no potential-you because all potentiality was removed in the elimination of the physical conditions which are essential to the concept's nature in that instance, i.e. you being presently alive.
How could you say that you have a potential existence when you have no potential existence? That would be a contradiction; thus, if you eliminate the possibility of any future potential regarding yourself, than there is no potential-you. To say otherwise is illogical.
Pants-of-dog wrote:Actually, I not only supoorted them, but @ingliz even provided evidence to support this position as well.
Yes, and you both were soundly refuted.
Pants-of-dog wrote:No. My future self exists as a concept and the real me exists as a physical object in the present.
Your future self being a potential person depends on certain physical conditions now, namely you being alive to become that future self. If those physical conditions are eliminated, any hope of you becoming a future self would likewise be eliminated, thus, in such a case, as was pointed out above, if you cease to exist now, so does any potential you (which is a concept).
Either you potentially exist or you do not, and that depends on certain physical criteria now, which is also the point of argument in the OP. Potential Persons are concepts that are dependent and connected to certain physical criteria. If those physical criteria are eliminated to which the concept is connected, a potential person is logically destroyed for the reasons shown above. If you destory a potential person, you destroy an actual person (logically speaking).