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AJ88

['Member']Joined: August 24, 2020 at 21:59Last active: October 09, 2022 at 14:241 discussions10 comments

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In: Does personal identity/"the self" persist through periods of unconsciousness such as dreamless sleep  — view comment
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonoetic_consciousness
September 03, 2020 at 05:19
In: Does personal identity/"the self" persist through periods of unconsciousness such as dreamless sleep  — view comment
I would agree that memory, especially Autonoetic memory plays a key roll in what I would see as a self extended in time. Do you have differant views? ...
September 03, 2020 at 05:16
In: Does personal identity/"the self" persist through periods of unconsciousness such as dreamless sleep  — view comment
Thats oddly reassuring. Seeing conciousness as whats lets the self/personal identity exist/experience itself but not self/personal identity itself mea...
September 03, 2020 at 04:34
In: Does personal identity/"the self" persist through periods of unconsciousness such as dreamless sleep  — view comment
Somewhat amusingly preeminent modern Christian thinkers like Bently Hart see Descartesian dualism as a post Christian concept that had very little to ...
September 03, 2020 at 03:46
In: Does personal identity/"the self" persist through periods of unconsciousness such as dreamless sleep  — view comment
I ment David Chalmers yes. I sent him a couple of email and like a Saint he sparked some time for me by replying. I did not want to take up more of hi...
September 03, 2020 at 03:44
In: Does personal identity/"the self" persist through periods of unconsciousness such as dreamless sleep  — view comment
Allowing for a purely materialistic naturalism based answer that does away with conciousness completely as well as any dualism?
September 03, 2020 at 03:14
In: Does personal identity/"the self" persist through periods of unconsciousness such as dreamless sleep  — view comment
i ment regarding surviving sleep. To use a computer as a metaphore, I see myself as a whole comprised of hardware and software and the survival of bot...
September 03, 2020 at 02:26
In: Does personal identity/"the self" persist through periods of unconsciousness such as dreamless sleep  — view comment
Out of curiosity what are the competing thoeries on conciousness now?
September 03, 2020 at 02:23
In: Does personal identity/"the self" persist through periods of unconsciousness such as dreamless sleep  — view comment
This also helps alot. I suppose I saw sleep more as the death of on conciousness and the rebirth of another, not so much the suspencion of another, wh...
September 03, 2020 at 02:21
In: Does personal identity/"the self" persist through periods of unconsciousness such as dreamless sleep  — view comment
Alot about this helps for sure. Such as the knowledge that the brain cant shut down. It also seems fairly reassuring that while consciousness is suppr...
August 29, 2020 at 20:19
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