I have two memories that are reasonably clear. One is in a pastel blue room with a small window from the perspective of a crib. The other is in a queen size bed with my mother and a knick knack shelf against the wall next to the bed and asking my mother when daddy was coming home. I was probably about one year old and unable to construct coherent speech and in the first scenario, I was around two years old.
As with all memories, I do not recall a 'feeling' of "I" with the memories, but "I" do remember. Even yesterday's memories are nothing more than that. My "I" is in the here and now. I trust that they are memories of my previous "here and now", but I do not know for a fact that they are or that someone/something implanted them. I do not know for a fact that I am not rotating through countless "here and nows", each complete with their own set of memories.
Anyway, to the point of all this, what is the "I"? Can the "I" just be relocated and still be "I"? IMHO, it is moot. As the "I" is only aware of the "here and now", I would always think that this is it and therefore not have an appreciation for the "new" life for it would still be the "here and now".
This is all assuming, of course, that I was not given the luxury of remembering the previous life.
As with all memories, I do not recall a 'feeling' of "I" with the memories, but "I" do remember. Even yesterday's memories are nothing more than that. My "I" is in the here and now. I trust that they are memories of my previous "here and now", but I do not know for a fact that they are or that someone/something implanted them. I do not know for a fact that I am not rotating through countless "here and nows", each complete with their own set of memories.
Anyway, to the point of all this, what is the "I"? Can the "I" just be relocated and still be "I"? IMHO, it is moot. As the "I" is only aware of the "here and now", I would always think that this is it and therefore not have an appreciation for the "new" life for it would still be the "here and now".
This is all assuming, of course, that I was not given the luxury of remembering the previous life.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
