RE: Tentatively Christian; looking for a reasonable discussion
March 25, 2015 at 6:17 pm
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2015 at 6:18 pm by Pizza.)
(March 25, 2015 at 1:54 pm)Pizz-atheist Wrote: Maybe we should be Software-Hardware dualists?But in all seriousness if that is the case, mind-body dualism is of no practical importance; in fact, the specialness of the human mind disappears.
Quote:Your proposed 'solution' only disguises the problem and doesn't answer how the identity is preserved throughout changes.Well there's the million dollar question: Is identity really preserved at all? Maybe at the end of the day, we are all asking the wrong questions? The reason why identity isn't reducible to particular things is, perhaps, because "I" doesn't mean anything more than what the dictionaries say: "pronoun-the person who is speaking or writing."
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. - Denis Diderot
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. - Gore Vidal
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. - Gore Vidal
