On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Terren Suydam <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Right now I'm only concerned with the present, the ongoing flow of > experience. It doesn't sound like you have any issue with the idea that > someone who gets physically reconstituted would experience consciousness > normally, save for discontinuities like the room changing color from red to > blue. > > If this seems obvious, that's good, it means we are starting from a place > of agreement. > Of course I agree, there is nothing special about the atoms in my brain, only the way that the atoms are arranged is unique, and that uniqueness signifies nothing fundamental or philosophical, it's just the result of the present day limitations of engineering technology. I am quite literally not the man I once was, new atoms are constantly coming into my body and old atoms going out. I am made of last years mashed potatoes, and yet subjectively I remain the same person, or at least I think I do and that's good enough for me. John K Clark > >> -- 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.
