Le Vendredi 21 Juillet 2006 22:08, Brent Meeker a écrit : > No, the hypothetical was stronger than that: it was that I knew exactly how > your brain worked to the degree that I could make one.
You could know everything on how my brain works without being ever able feeling being me... And I repeat if you could then you would be me by definition. Me is the only one able to feel being me... It is non-sense to claim otherwise, what ever you could know on the external working and behavior of myself. > You certainly don't > know how your brain works, so while it is in princple communicable, it > would not be part of your self description. > > >Even when I describe a feeling, I > > describe it in a 3rd communication way, and you could infer from your own > > feeling what it would be like, never to be sure it is... because if you > > were sure of this, then you'll no longer be Brent Meeker, but me. > > I don't think that follows. When I'm sure that my wife is in pain from > torn cartilage in her knee, it doesn't mean that I am my wife. Sure, I wasn't talking about this... I was saying that you couldn't know how your wife feel the pain... You could have an intuition of it comparing your own feeling... but that's not enough... far from it. > But in any > case, being sure is a higher standard than we apply to any scientific > belief. I agree. Regards, Quentin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
