On 27 Feb 2009, at 01:57, Günther Greindl wrote:
> > Hi, > >> Personal identity and memory could be a useful fiction for living. >> Here >> I was alluding to possible deeper sense of the self, which makes me >> conceive that indeed there is only one person playing a trick to >> itself. >> Like if our bodies where just disconnected windows giving to that >> unique >> person the ability to have a sort of stereoscopic view on reality. > > I think I agree with this view. At least, in mystic mode ;-) > >> Memories, like body and brain are things we possess, and this >> means, I >> think, that we can still survive without them. >> >> Suppose that I die tomorrow, and that sometimes after someone find a >> backup of "me" at the age of five, so that "I" am reconstituted from >> that backup. Would you say I am dead, or would you say that I have >> survived, only with a severe sort of amnesy ? > > We should be careful here: the "mystic I" survives, but I don't think > that that is what most people have in mind when they talk of personal > identity/survival. Here, the concern is clearly continuity of memory. > > In normal discourse, the 5 year old Bruno is clearly not an amnesic > survivor; the older Bruno (with his unique experiences) would be dead. I am that five years Bruno, but just older. If I am promised having a different life, I could accept such a backup. It would be refreshing. If I die through amnesia, I die all the time since infinity. Yet I am still feeling to be here. Rossler is right, consciousness is a prison. Have a good day, Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
