RE: How "reincarnation" might work?
March 31, 2016 at 7:50 am
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2016 at 7:57 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 30, 2016 at 10:52 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: It's very confusing. But I think we have an intuition that continuity is a necessary feature of self. I think this is because in some sense we 'own' our past actions. They belong to us. If they weren't the product of our current brain and body, we wouldn't feel they belong to us. And a large part of what determines who we are is our past actions. If I hadn't lived the life I had lived, I wouldn't be the same 'me'.
Continuity of self seems to be a proposition with utility that's entirely divorced from it's veracity. If we discovered, tomorrow, unequivocally, that there was no self (let alone continuity)...I doubt that people's behavior would change a single iota armed with that knowledge. In some models it's seem as a system rule, necessary to function. Not that continuity of self exists, or that it's actually a necessary feature of -self- ofc, but that the proposition is taken to be true by the system. It wouldn't operate as it does otherwise, has no control over that propositional value, and so it cannot conceive otherwise, mechanically.
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