On Sep 6, 4:46 pm, Simon Ewins <[email protected]> wrote:
> >There is no tree ( in view ) untill the window is closed. There is a
>
> >tree, with the window open. Therefore, the tree " must come, somehow,
> >from the " window ! ?
> I don't see that as at all analogous.
>
> Given that a particular brain is associated with a particular self. When the
> brain ceases to exist (window closed?) the associated self likewise. That
> same brain cannot come back into existence (window open?) that I know of.
Think of deep sleep, when the consciousness ( and the self ) as you
know are absent despite, may I point out, the brain being very there
and alive. But it ( the mind and the self ) reappears. Is its
temporary absence ( in deep sleep ) real ?
> (I should think that the tree is there regardless of window state.)
Indeed.
> You seem to be saying that right now at this moment a brain that will not
> exist until 200 years from now... currently has its associated self extant
> now waiting for the brain to come into existence?
Indeed.
> Sorry, I don't get the analogy, or the possibility.
There is no need to apologise. We all have our times when it is
impossible to even see or think, much less accept, that which lies
just beyond the linear knowledge possessing our ' self.'
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