> On 1 Jul 2014, at 4:57 am, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Much is made of observer-moments and their sequence, but I just got back from
> my mother's 100th birthday party. She's still relatively sharp and lives
> alone, but it's also clear that she's fading. Her sensory perceptions are
> weak and her thoughts are slower than they once were. I expect that one day
> she will just fade out altogether, as her mother did at age 99. So why
> imagine that the next observer-moment for her will be any different than the
> observer moment of a rock?
I think the brain fades but not the self. The older I get the more bizarre the
disparity between how young "I" feel and certain things that relate to the
jouney of the body toward its inevitable demise. The self can only remain
conerent insofar as the hosting apparatus is up to its job. Any apparent
fuzziness of self with age is surely the result of loss of signal? The brain
does start to go down the toilet after about 80 so one would expect
"interference" or patchy signal strength. I have an elderly mother in precisely
the same situation but not quite as old as your mum. She now feels trapped by
her body because she feels young of spirit and can certainly pick an argument
just like she used to.
Kim
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