On 5/15/2014 3:05 PM, Russell Standish 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.
Or a crazy person.
Brent
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