On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 12:18 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 8/5/2014 4:23 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > On the other hand, you talk about "usefulness" in a very narrow sense. > What makes life bearable in this weird reality we find ourselves in is very > personal. We all have our different ways and different questions that we > would like to answer, maybe. > > >> It essentially cuts off any avenue of help. >> > > No it doesn't! It doesn't follow from "a certain theory of consciousness > provides no help for Alzheimer" that "there is no possibility of help for > Alzheimer". > > > When you refer to what makes life bearable is very personal seems to > identify "life" with "consciousness", since that is what is very personal. > Yes. > When I said a theory of consciousness that makes it independent of all > external interactions cuts off all avenues of help, I meant help for those > personal experiences. Kim even went so far as to suggest that, in spite of > external appearances, those with Alzheimers might be perfectly happy and > content and there is no need to try to help. > A priori I would prefer not to have Alzheimers, so if it can be cured I would cure it. I fully support research in that direction and I am sure I would be devastated if a loved one started suffering from it. But that may be selfish indeed. None of us know how it feels to have Alzheimers. I would apply the golden rule (do as I wanted done to me) because Alzheimers makes it impossible to apply the better version: so as they would like done to them. > The trouble with such a theory is that it applies as well to those > apoplectic with rage or sobbing in sorrow - maybe they're really happy, we > just can't know. > But in this case you can ask them. Telmo. > > Brent > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
