Hi, > Personal identity and memory could be a useful fiction for living. Here > I was alluding to possible deeper sense of the self, which makes me > conceive that indeed there is only one person playing a trick to itself. > Like if our bodies where just disconnected windows giving to that unique > person the ability to have a sort of stereoscopic view on reality.
I think I agree with this view. At least, in mystic mode ;-) > Memories, like body and brain are things we possess, and this means, I > think, that we can still survive without them. > > Suppose that I die tomorrow, and that sometimes after someone find a > backup of "me" at the age of five, so that "I" am reconstituted from > that backup. Would you say I am dead, or would you say that I have > survived, only with a severe sort of amnesy ? We should be careful here: the "mystic I" survives, but I don't think that that is what most people have in mind when they talk of personal identity/survival. Here, the concern is clearly continuity of memory. In normal discourse, the 5 year old Bruno is clearly not an amnesic survivor; the older Bruno (with his unique experiences) would be dead. Best Wishes, Günther --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
