But I think a lot of what your brain does is integrate perceptions from different places
(right eye, left eye, inner ear,...) into a coherent story that appears as conscious
thought. So I expect that if you were sharing inputs with Terren or sharing brain parts,
each brain would continue to create coherent stories - even if it had to ignore some
inputs or confabulate some. This is essentially what happens in split-brain experiments.
It also suggests to me that conscious thought is just a kind of story the brain makes up,
mainly for the purpose of remembering what's important and forgetting the rest.
Brent
On 5/15/2014 3:50 PM, Dennis Ochei wrote:
I meant borne. Subjective expectation is the problem. It's not clear that you can
"partially" partake in an experience. An experience is either yours or it is someone elses.
On Thursday, May 15, 2014, meekerdb <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
On 5/15/2014 12:57 PM, Dennis Ochei wrote:
More like me than anything else in the universe is not sufficient for
subjective
expectation. Im not asking whether my appearance, personality, and memories
are
preserved (they are) I'm asking whether these properties are born by the same
"I"
of the present
I don't understand "born by"? Maybe you meant "borne"? But that's reifying
"I"
over and above all its properties. Why do that? I'm just questioning the
all-or-nothing. Why can't "I" just consist of most of the properties "I"
had yesterday?
Brent
On Thursday, May 15, 2014, meekerdb <[email protected]
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote:
On 5/15/2014 9:27 AM, Dennis Ochei wrote:
The memory criterion is a problem because the identity question
cannot be
graded. I will either wake up in my bed tomorrow or someone else
will who
is merely like me will.
Why "merely"? Why isn't "more like me than anything else in the
universe"
enough to "be" you?
But memories can be gained or lost. If the loss or gain of a single
memory
destroys me, then we are right back to the empty view, if i can
survive
these kinds of transformations then we return to the open view
I don't see it? Why the all-or-nothing conclusion? You have more of
your
memories than I do; so we are distinct.
Brent
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