With (panpsychic-experiential) materialism:
- the self is not eternal :( [ of course you could be frozen in the hope for some future technology ]) - it is an independent consciousness (pretty much so, introducing outside chemicals aside) - pt On Friday, April 19, 2019 at 4:21:25 AM UTC-5, Cosmin Visan wrote: > > No, this cannot be done. The Self is eternal and it exists necessarily by > the fact that it self-refers itself. All you can do is to give the Self > different experiences and make him believe he is an individual > consciousness. This is happening for example in biological reproduction. > What biological reproduction is doing is to make the unique Self to believe > he is an independent consciousness. But in order to make him believe that, > you need to follow specific conditions as they are realized in biology. As > of today, we have no idea what those conditions are that biology satisfy in > order to make the Self believe he is an independent consciousness. > > On Friday, 19 April 2019 11:09:36 UTC+3, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> Of course (as you know) I say one could bring a "bunch of atoms together" >> to get something that is a conscious self. >> > -- 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.
