Warren Ockrassa wrote: > >> Keep in mind, that a sense of "I" is limited entirely to the "I". > > No; it actually predicts "you" -- by distinguishing oneself from > others, others must logically spring into existence. > > That is, I don't think you can have an "I" in a vacuum. This means that > the presence of self-awareness, being almost by definition > other-awareness as well, changes how an I-conscious being behaves. > Gene-motivated actions aren't the sole deciding factor any more. > Experimentally, there is no such thing as an "I": take a healthy person, cut the brain in half, removing all communication between the two hemispheres, and you end up with _two_ different personalities, each one of them remembers being the former "I". I imagine that if it were possible to keep cutting with surviving remains we would get other smaller versions of "I".
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