> On 18 Aug 2014, at 5:33 am, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > > Is there a kind of soul that is independent of memory but is a "person"?
Well, you'd want to hope so by now, surely. After all, if there isn't, then.... "What's It All (been) About, Alfie?" No cul-de-sacs. Consciousness sails on via FPI. You cannot experience a no-world world, so there is (apparently) no rest "rest eternal" for the wicked or the poor by ducking into a "death world" where you cease to exist. Existence for consciousness is mandatory; obviously. Consciousness then mandates "unconsciousness" or the dreamworld repository of all those things about our archetypal self we cannot experience at will but are subjected to via dreams, premonitions, intuitions, hunches, wisdom of all sorts. The amnesiac no-memory-between-instantiations thing might be explained by the fact that every possible instantiation of you is up and running right now and there are now very many histories smeared across the MV. Which memories would you default to following death in one universe? Why don't I possess a memory spanning from Gronk the Caveman all the way through lives scattered over 200 or so thousand years of homo sapiens to me here right now? Must have something to do with that god damned first person thing again. Bruno should get the Nobel Prize for discovering FPI. But a person is a very stable thing. Quantum Immortality: "a conscious entity cannot cease to exist". That's a good basic definition of a "person". Perhaps. A stable information pattern that persists and is self-conscious. Could live happily on a hard disk somewhere. Kim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
