On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Dennis Ochei <[email protected]>wrote:
> The more I think about the subjective expectation question the more > meaningless it becomes. I'm not asking if a future person is physically or > psychologically like me, I know the answer to that. In fact, even if I knew > every physical fact about a body and had a complete knowledge of the neural > correlates of consciousness I still wouldn't know if it was realizing my > consciousness or a consciousness that is merely precisely like mine. This > question of whether a past or future experience did or will belong to me > is distinctly extraphysical. > > It is extraphysical, but that doesn't mean nothing can be said about it. There are tools for understanding systems regardless of their domain of instantiation, such as cybernetics. If the self can be characterized without reference to the physical per se, then there may be answers to those questions. -- 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.
