On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 07:51:22PM +1000, Bruce Kellett wrote: > On 4/08/2016 6:00 pm, Bruce Kellett wrote: > >On 4/08/2016 5:52 pm, Russell Standish wrote: > >>Methinks you are unnecessarily assuming transitivity again. > > > >No, I was just referring to the continuation of a single > >consciousness through time. We get different input data all the > >time but we do not differentiate according to that data. > > I could perhaps expand on that response. On duplication, two > identical consciousnesses are created, and by the identity of > indiscernibles, they form just a single consciousness. Then data is > input. It seems to me that there is no reason why this should lead > the initial consciousness to differentiate, or split into two. In > normal life we get inputs from many sources simultaneously -- we see > complex scenes, smell the air, feel impacts on our body, and hear > many sounds from the environment. None of this leads our > consciousness to disintegrate. Indeed, our evolutionary experience > has made us adept at coping with these multifarious inputs and > sorting through them very efficiently to concentrate on what is most > important, while keeping other inputs at an appropriate level in our > minds. >
You appear to be conflating differentiation with disintegration. Yes my consciousness now differs from what it was one second ago, but by the YD I'm supposed to have survived from one second to the next. We're not supposed to ask what does "survive" mean. Actually it is a very interesting question, but nobody, least of all Bruno, has anything remotely resembling an answer. But in the W/M experiment, both W and M can say they survived from the ancester H, but W did not survive from M, nor vice-versa. All three are different from each other - they have differentiated. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow [email protected] Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
