Jack Symes
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Yeah, I think that's fine. There's other problems though that seem to fall out of this as well, right? Which is like we have a concept of what it is to be a person back to our individual subjective conscious minds.
Yeah, I think that's fine. There's other problems though that seem to fall out of this as well, right? Which is like we have a concept of what it is to be a person back to our individual subjective conscious minds.
You know, when we try and think about what it is for me to be me today is the same person born 31 years ago and the same person in the halfway point between that again to go back to Zeno. Like how am I the same person throughout time? I think the best answer to this is is something like, I have the same capacity for conscious experience.
You know, when we try and think about what it is for me to be me today is the same person born 31 years ago and the same person in the halfway point between that again to go back to Zeno. Like how am I the same person throughout time? I think the best answer to this is is something like, I have the same capacity for conscious experience.
You know, when we try and think about what it is for me to be me today is the same person born 31 years ago and the same person in the halfway point between that again to go back to Zeno. Like how am I the same person throughout time? I think the best answer to this is is something like, I have the same capacity for conscious experience.
If it was stream of consciousness, that would mean every time you drift off during me talking now, then you would die and you'd be born again when your stream of consciousness reemerges.
If it was stream of consciousness, that would mean every time you drift off during me talking now, then you would die and you'd be born again when your stream of consciousness reemerges.
If it was stream of consciousness, that would mean every time you drift off during me talking now, then you would die and you'd be born again when your stream of consciousness reemerges.
Yeah, like if you say Joe Rogan is that stream of consciousness, that sequence of experiences that he's undergoing now, and that stops because you drift off, that would mean your stream of consciousness has ended. Think of it like sleep. When you go into like NRN sleep and you don't have any conscious experiences, let's say, you would die according to that view.
Yeah, like if you say Joe Rogan is that stream of consciousness, that sequence of experiences that he's undergoing now, and that stops because you drift off, that would mean your stream of consciousness has ended. Think of it like sleep. When you go into like NRN sleep and you don't have any conscious experiences, let's say, you would die according to that view.
Yeah, like if you say Joe Rogan is that stream of consciousness, that sequence of experiences that he's undergoing now, and that stops because you drift off, that would mean your stream of consciousness has ended. Think of it like sleep. When you go into like NRN sleep and you don't have any conscious experiences, let's say, you would die according to that view.
or the reviews in philosophy which say you are your psychological continuity. Joe Rogan is the person that believes, I don't know, that Marshall is golden retriever is fantastic and that consciousness is the fundamental nature of stuff. But then if I were to strip those beliefs away from you, the psychological continuity view would say Joe Rogan doesn't exist anymore.
or the reviews in philosophy which say you are your psychological continuity. Joe Rogan is the person that believes, I don't know, that Marshall is golden retriever is fantastic and that consciousness is the fundamental nature of stuff. But then if I were to strip those beliefs away from you, the psychological continuity view would say Joe Rogan doesn't exist anymore.
or the reviews in philosophy which say you are your psychological continuity. Joe Rogan is the person that believes, I don't know, that Marshall is golden retriever is fantastic and that consciousness is the fundamental nature of stuff. But then if I were to strip those beliefs away from you, the psychological continuity view would say Joe Rogan doesn't exist anymore.
Because I don't exist anymore. Yeah, I get you. So I think it's like the thing that gives you your consciousness.
Because I don't exist anymore. Yeah, I get you. So I think it's like the thing that gives you your consciousness.
Because I don't exist anymore. Yeah, I get you. So I think it's like the thing that gives you your consciousness.
Yeah, but when you sleep, you have it, right? Yeah, but when you sleep, you dream. Like what is going on there? We don't even understand that. You don't think there's ever a moment when you don't have an experience? No. Well, you don't have a conscious experience because you're not conscious. That will do.
Yeah, but when you sleep, you have it, right? Yeah, but when you sleep, you dream. Like what is going on there? We don't even understand that. You don't think there's ever a moment when you don't have an experience? No. Well, you don't have a conscious experience because you're not conscious. That will do.
Yeah, but when you sleep, you have it, right? Yeah, but when you sleep, you dream. Like what is going on there? We don't even understand that. You don't think there's ever a moment when you don't have an experience? No. Well, you don't have a conscious experience because you're not conscious. That will do.