But someone can have global amnesia and still be a person, I dont think having memories originating from two people makes you a non-person
On Thursday, May 15, 2014, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]<javascript:;> > 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/everything-list/S5Qi3Q_2TTI/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected] <javascript:;>. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]<javascript:;> > . > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- 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.
