On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 5:34 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/18/2013 1:29 PM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:23 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 10/18/2013 12:18 AM, Jason Resch wrote: >> >> Note: I do believe we experience all possible outcomes, and you can even >> say in truth there is only one "I" >> >> >> In your theory a person is a chain of experiences, so different chain >> => different person. It seems more accurate to say there is no "I". >> >> > But the chain is immortal and cyclic, > > > Why do you assume it's cyclic? > For the same reason Poincare believed in recurrence. > Where was it before life evolved? > > Before and after are only directions relative to some point of view. > > convoluted with periods of amnesia, > > > Amnesia = gap in the chain. > Memories are not a necessary requirement for experience and thus are not a requirement for subjective continuation and survival. You survive despite forgetting things, or being in a meditative state not drawing on any past memories. > > > branching, etc. Any state eventually leads to every other state. > > > Sounds like wishful thinking. > > I will accept that when you can point to a computational state not reachable from some other arbitrary computational state. Jason > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
