On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 12:40:10PM -0500, 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 >
I believe the premise of this thought experiment is wrong. By something like 10%* of the way through, neither entity is consious, and remains so until the 90% mark. The 50/50 brain is a non-person. I have criticised Parfitt on this before, although I think he makes a lot of sense elsewhere in his book. Cheers *Precise values could be determined by anaesthetisation experiments, values quoted here are indicative. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au Latest project: The Amoeba's Secret (http://www.hpcoders.com.au/AmoebasSecret.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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/d/optout.
