On 02 Dec 2009, at 14:16, soulcatcher☠ wrote:
Hi all,
every time I read about the anthropic reasoning in physics I can't
help asking the more general question:
Why I am I, not somebody else?
Why I see through _this_ eyes, am confined to _this_ brain, was born
in _this_ year, etc?
This
x This raises the question of how many first person exists. I like the idea
that the answer is one. We may be all the universal person appearing and
reappearing like if we were already duplicated many times, which makes sense
given that we come from the same amoeba. We are like a god who lost
2009/12/3 soulcatcher☠ soulcatche...@gmail.com:
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com
wrote:
If you were Elvis and Elvis were you, what difference would that make
to anything?
That would make a huge difference for me and Elvis - my (and his)
subjective
Apparently it did not work. I am bruno marchal now!
Please swish again!
:)
No! I am Bruno Marchal! Pliz get me out of here :)
Do you see the problem in the above exchange? It assumes there is some
metaphysical me and you that can be conceptualised as flitting
about from one body and mind
On 03 Dec 2009, at 12:12, soulcatcher☠ wrote:
x This raises the question of how many first person exists. I like
the idea
that the answer is one. We may be all the universal person
appearing and
reappearing like if we were already duplicated many times, which
makes sense
given that
soulcatcher wrote:
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Jason Resch jasonre...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi soulcatcher,
Good question, it is something I thought about too, then I realized I am me
because it was this brain in my skull asking that question. I created the
attached image to help
soulcatcher wrote:
Lets consider two "hard" questions - "why do we live in THIS
universe?" (1) and "why am I me?" (2).
(1) . Why do we live in THIS universe?
Here we got:
- string theory and anthropic reasoning present us with a landscape of
10^(10^N) universes that we can choose
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
2009/12/3 soulcatcher☠ soulcatche...@gmail.com:
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote:
If you were Elvis and Elvis were you, what difference would that make
to anything?
That would
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com wrote:
Science advances in small steps that often depend on technology. I think
the next 'hard' question that has some chance of being answered is, what
information processes are necessary and sufficient to produce
Rex Allen wrote:
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Brent Meeker meeke...@dslextreme.com wrote:
Science advances in small steps that often depend on technology. I think
the next 'hard' question that has some chance of being answered is, what
information processes are necessary and sufficient
On 03 Dec 2009, at 19:56, Brent Meeker wrote:
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
2009/12/3 soulcatcher☠ soulcatche...@gmail.com:
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com
wrote:
If you were Elvis and Elvis were you, what difference would that
make
to anything?
Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 03 Dec 2009, at 19:56, Brent Meeker wrote:
Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
2009/12/3 soulcatcher☠ soulcatche...@gmail.com:
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com wrote:
If
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