John, I guess my brain is generating my consciousness, but I regard this as a contingent fact. My conciousness is that which I experience, and if I found myself continuing to have similar experiences despite teleportation, brain transplant, resurrection in Heaven or whatever, then I would have survived as me. Note that I am not saying these things are possible (perhaps this is where you are scornful of the fantastic scenarios), just that IF in these situations I continued to think I was me, THEN ipso facto, I would still be me, despite losing the original body and brain.Stathis PapaioannouFrom: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: ASSA and Many-WorldsDate: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:54:32 -0500
Stathis: interesting. See my additional question after your reply John ----- Original Message ----- From: Stathis Papaioannou To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 9:03 AM Subject: RE: ASSA and Many-Worlds John Mikes writes: > Stathis:> your concluding sentence is> " But my brain just won't let me think this way."> *> Have you been carried away?> Who is "your brain" to make decisions upon you? (maybe you mean only that the mechanism of your brain, the main tool "YOU" use in mental activity, is not predesigned for such action?) So: is there a pre-design (ha ha)?> More importantly: who is that "me" in conflict with 'your' brain?> How do you 'want' to 'think' something (which involves your brain) when 'your brain' won't let it happen?> OK, let's introduce "you", the homunculus, who wants to think some way and your 'brain' did not reach the sophistication of the design (yet?) to comply - as a reason for "won't let me".> With what 'tool' did "you" WANT to "think this way"? How many people are you indeed?> *> I am asking these stupid qiestions in the line of my search for SELF ("I"), vs. the total interconnectedness of our personal existence with 'the rest of the world'. I expect that you may provide useful hooks for me in such respect.> John"I" am the product of a consciousness-generating mechanism, my brain, in the same way as "walking" is the product of a locomotion-generating mechanism, my legs. "I" am not identical to my brain just as "walking" is not identical to my legs. Now, of course "I can only think what my brain will let me think", and of course "I can only walk where my legs will let me walk", but these statements are not tautologies in the way that saying "I can only think what I can think" or "I can only walk where I can walk" are. Stathis Papaioannou----------------------------------- JM: so you consider the biologic tissue-grown (stem-cell initiated) BRAIN the origin of a thinking person? Life growing out from 'matter' - which is the figment of our explanatory effort to poorly and incompletely observed impact received from parts unknown? Funny: you invested so many posts into the (partial) teleportation and copying into other universes - did you really MEAN the transfer of tissues (like in StarTrek?) How 'bout the multiple 'copying' of matter? How can you duplicate the atoms for copying? StarTrek had only 1 copy and that, too, by 'physical' transfer. Save the wrong conclusion: I am not defending this line, I find it unreal and just mention the position of yours and others on this list for argument's sake. I find it 'interesting, but amazing' that different brains (see: the multiplicity of humans and other animals among themselves) behave like mental clones in accepting very similar "3rd person views" into their 1st person ideas, to form images of the 'material world' etc. Mental images, that is, which, however you would make into their own origination? Are we all (and the world, the existnce etc.) only fiction of ourselves? Then again I feel that the 'consciousness' you generate by the brain may be very close to personality, self, the "I" we are talking about. Which would close the loop: "there must be the 'primitive matter' forming the brain and out of that comes the 'not-so-primitive' matter, the mental complexity and all"??? I agree withBruno to disagree in the absolute primitive matter concept. IMO It is only an explanatory imaging in this universe's consciousness activity to order the part of the system we so far detected. Together with space-time and OUR pet-causality - the 'within model' ordering. John PS I still would appreciate to be directed to a short text explaining the essence of ASSA (RSSA?). J _________________________________________________________________ Get connected - Use your Hotmail address to sign into Windows Live Messenger now. http://get.live.com/messenger/overview --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
