RE: Consciousness Trilemma
May 24, 2017 at 9:08 pm
(This post was last modified: May 24, 2017 at 9:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 24, 2017 at 7:01 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: There is just a little bit of a moral danger in this position. For many people the notion of self-identity is bound to their personal autonomy. One of the arguments for abortion is that a fetus is not really a person, as in a self-conscious being with identity, and therefore it is okay to kill it.No, there isn't, and the argument from personhood is a legal argument, not an argument regarding their consciousness.
Quote:Once you start going around saying things like "personal identity it an illusion" that seems to undermine the basis for self-sovereignty and the consequences of that kind of thinking are never good.
Suppose it -did- undermine the basis of self sovereignty, which it doesn't, so what? We should hush and whisper about it, rather than let anyone hear the truth? It's a serious field of study, nobody has time for that nonsense.
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