RE: When are we not ourselves?
May 17, 2016 at 8:46 pm
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2016 at 8:47 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It is interesting, isn't it...because I know that I can't be, in any meaningful sense "the same person" that I was years and years ago - and that's without even taking into account rates of cell replacement.
-and yet, I have this experience of a consistent identity, even through all of that change...which is, itself, shown to be entirely baseless -regardless- of cell replacement. We don't actually remember who we were or what we thought with any sort of broad reliability...so how could I arrive at such an "experience" in the first place?
I think we fudge the math, to make it work, personally. The assumption of persistence and consistence has utility not at all related to it's veracity.
-and yet, I have this experience of a consistent identity, even through all of that change...which is, itself, shown to be entirely baseless -regardless- of cell replacement. We don't actually remember who we were or what we thought with any sort of broad reliability...so how could I arrive at such an "experience" in the first place?
I think we fudge the math, to make it work, personally. The assumption of persistence and consistence has utility not at all related to it's veracity.
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