On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 3:42 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10/22/2013 9:52 AM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:38 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 10/22/2013 1:09 AM, Jason Resch wrote: >> >> If it's simply a set of experiences, then it can't "choose to simulate" >>> anything. >>> >>> >> >> The mind has the tools available to generate any experience it wants, >> somewhat like a lucid dream but one where you exercise complete control >> over everything in that dream and thus can steer it wherever you want it to >> go. >> >> >> Again that falls into inconsistency. WHO is exercising complete >> control?? >> > > I don't see what you find inconsistent about controlling our future > experiences. You decide to get make cup of coffee in the morning, and a > few experiences later you are drinking a cup of coffee. A > super-intelligent machine with access to the appropriate technology is just > putting into practice self-determination to the extreme. > > >> If a person is a sequence of exepriences, there is no "who". >> >> > Why isn't there a who? Isn't the who the person? > > > I'd say the brain - but that's because I don't believe a person is nothing > but a sequence of experiences. > > All this time I thought you were operating under the definition that a person is a set of experiences, therefore all of my answers were geared toward conforming to that definition. I see now why there has been so much confusion. To clarify, I do not think experiences are the fundamental (lowest level of explanation for) reality, and also I would say a person is more than the set of experiences that might be ascribed to them, though a person is something to which experience can be ascribed. Jason -- 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.
