A Note On Continuity of Consciousness

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@archon <jroughan9@gmail.com> on 2016-06-03 23:33:28 wrote

As it happens, I have been useing that particular article of yours in my reasrch project about transhumanism (which is a semester length full subject, that i have to pass to graduate high school). so this followup has come at a really good time for me. thanks a lot!

@Specialist290 <specialist290@hughes.net> on 2016-06-04 11:18:13 wrote

Or you could take the view that Derek Parfit came to in Reasons and Persons, that personal identity is both indeterminable and irrelevant, and the important thing is psychological continuity.

Or you could reach all the way back to Heraclitus and make the case that the entire universe possesses one numerically identical hypostasis, and that all apparent differences are matters of process and properties, not of substance.

(Not saying that I espouse either of these myself, but there are a lot more views on the matter beyond the three presented here.)

@Alistair Young <athanasius.skytower@arkane-systems.net> on 2016-06-05 02:35:54 wrote

Oh, certainly. I’m merely only addressing what one might call the mainstream positions, for the sake of time.

(Although I do note that there , those philosophers who outright deny the existence of personal identity tend to be met by the Sorry, I Do Not Debate With Nonexistent People counter.)