On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 3:42 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
> On 10/22/2013 9:52 AM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:38 AM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
