It's not about wheater you stay you, it's about wheater you have the same awareness. Although your brain cells stay in a similar arrangement, what difference would what your brain becomes be to that of a clone with the same memories. Would you and your clone form some sort of collective...
:eek: Please ignore my last few posts. How could I have written like that!
Hypnagogue wrote:
How could that be?
Hypnagogue, you don't seem interested in considering its validity. It may be because, if it is true, it would make much of what we do pointless.
Does anyone know if there have...
Lets consider: we have T, one's initial phenomenal state and T2, one's final phenomenal state. We have two people who are exactly the same and go through the same experiences. How is person 1's T and T2 related so that they can be considered to be experienced by the same being overall, any more...
I think phenomenal consciousness can be considered without having to consider personal identity, which is largely based on memories.
Although my statement was counter-intuitive, I think I wasn't "stating things too strongly". I'll change the wording: This would mean that one may not be one...
This would mean that one couldn't be considered on conscious entity, but a holder of counscious entities which only exist for a moment before they are replaced.
I am considering that, as a result of the changes in the part of one's brain which experiences events, each moment of experience is experienced by what could be considered another awareness and that each moment of experience may be related only by memory, which may give an illusion of one...
Consider a case of two people with almost identical neurology. If one person experiences an event and then he exeperiences another, how are these events linked more than an experience from each person is linked. By the time the first person has experienced the event his awareness may be changed...
Am I continually aware or does the part of me which experiences events change in such a way that each experience is unique, as though my next experience was of a different person.
We don't know what part of the brain experiences events (I think). it probably goes throgh change, as other parts of the brain do (neurons move, make connections, change things). The question is: will my awareness change in such a way that my future experiences will be experienced by another...
Edited: I realize now that you said the laws of statistical mechanics still hold with time flowing in the other direction. Why is that, if there's an easy way of explaining?
I've read that there is a thermodynamic arrow of time, based on the fact that entropy can only increase or stay at the same level. But why is it thought to be directed in the same direction as the psychological arrow of time. Could there be an arrow of time directed in the opposite direction to...
Why isn't the thermoidynamic arrow of time thought of as going from high entropy to lower entropy, in the opposite direction to the psychological arrow, towards what we think of as the past?