(November 26, 2016 at 4:27 am)Ignorant Wrote: Thanks! Would someone who loses their memory or psychological continuity also lose their "self-ness"?
If they lost it permanently, then yes.
Quote:Do you attach any significance to the meaning of the Greek word "psyche", and its classical (not modern) usage on this topic, or is it just a coincidence?
Just a coincidence.
Another way of looking at it is... self-ness is self-identificationness?
But, well, who knows, perhaps absolutely everything is made of psyche-stuff or soul-stuff? Perhaps 'energy' itself is experientiality?
Just to play Devil's Advocate:
And here's a bonus that is most definitely NOT Devil's Advocate on my part: