On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Jason Resch <jasonre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If it takes the brain 100 ms to compute a moment of awareness, then you can > know you were not created 1 microsecond ago. Suppose your brain paused for 1 us every 99 ms. To an external observer you would be functioning normally; do you think you would be a philosophical zombie? We can change the thought experiment to make the pauses and the duration of consciousness between the pauses arbitrarily long, effectively cutting up consciousness however we want, even if a conscious moment is smeared out over time. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
