On 5/15/2014 10:40 AM, Dennis Ochei wrote:
The empty view doesn't stop at sleep, different psychophysical structures are different
persons. From moment to moment there is no identity. Identity is abolished in all but
the trivial case, there are just degrees of relatedness. Your relation to your future
self is like your relationship with a sibling.
Identity cannot be had in degrees because it is concerned with the question, "What will
I experience next?"
Let's say my memories and yours are gradually swapped in parallel, at the halfway point
there are two personalities that are both half yours and half mine. It makes sense to
say the are both not me if we take on the mereologically essential view of empty
individualism. It doesnt make sense to say I am half experiencing being each of them.
There is the experiencer on the left, and there is the one on the right but there is no
experiencer that is half the person on the left and half the person on the right
How do you know this? Forget memories, suppose you an Terry had your brains wired together
so that you shared each others perceptions. What makes you think there would be two
perceivers? How do you know you aren't already two (or more) perceivers? Have you read
Dennett's multiple-drafts model of consciousness?
Brent
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