Recent content by King Arthur

Baywax Darwin states we evolved, you appear to agree with this. Awareness started in a life when that life developed, through time and natural selection, some sort of sensor and a recptor to recognise the signal. So first there was life without awareness, this seems to be what you suggest...

THE POINT An ancient creature with a nerve and a simple recptor, the minimum requirement for awareness. Even this creature had to evolve, so before the evolution of this creature, living creatures had no consciousness/awareness. These creatures were alive so had identity, but without...

Baywax Are you angry with me, do you want to discuss the debate or the debator? Do you understand the concept not being about consciousness but about identity? (do I have to copy the definition from the 3rd post agian?) Are you going to answer the muti-choice question you quoted back at me...

Baywax Your left hand has different fingerprints from your right hand, using this logic you are two identities. Are identical twins two people living with separate consciousness? Yes. Identities? (is this just a play on the word identity, do you understand the concept not being about...

There is no one part of you that is you, your identity, but it has to be contained somewhere, seems logical then it is in all of you. It appears your argument is that amputation of the body would somhow effect (destroy) you being you. You don't explain replaced, altered, copied, cloned or...

Got here only by going through my email. Ok ignor ? only 3 replies, hope I can get here agian. I have only limited access to the net at home , thought -I- got banned for stating the -I- theory, the computer is slow and acts funny, might be a virus, don't really know. Out of whack- Your not...

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Does it matter who I am, do you want to discuss the debate or the debator? Quoting out of whack -If you ask the question to both of them, each will answer that they are their own self within their own body - You quoted me talking about you, so why not just say YOU would answer that you are...

Definitions- Identity- What makes you, you. Your own self. What classes something as alive. Consciousness and awareness are, IMO, evolutionary advantages that probably started with the advent of pain, to reduce damage to an organisms. Left out of whack, Right out of whack, Your body is...

http://philosophy.uwaterloo.ca/MindDict/substancedualism.html Quote Perhaps the most famous proponent of substance dualism was Descartes, who cashed out the distinction between minds and bodies as follows: Minds are things that think but lack spatial magnitude, and bodies are things that...