> On 6 Oct 2015, at 11:29 AM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> On 10/5/2015 5:14 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: >> >> From this comment it seems that you have an odd idea of how a person >> survives from moment to moment, as if they have a soul that needs to be >> transferred from one body to the other. That isn't how it works. If A1 >> survives as a later entity A2, it is necessary and sufficient that A1 and A2 >> have certain physical and psychological properties. No spark or soul needs >> to jump from A1 to A2, and they neither need to have any matter in common >> nor do they need to have any physical continuity, since these factors have >> no effect on experience. > > I disagree with that last. It's commonly assumed, because with shut our eyes > and imagine scenes and we can compose dialog in our heads; but I think it is > a mistake to think these can happen independent of some underlying physics - > even if it's not "primitive" physics (whatever that is) which Bruno dismisses.
But lack of physical continuity will not necessarily make a subjective difference, even if physics is needed to instantiate consciousness. -- 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.
