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Ok, right, so you think that I was suggesting your quote came from a bad non-philosophical source. That's what I assumed you thought. I just got confu...

So what is the significance of the fact that you quoted the SEP? In what way does that constitute a response to what I said?

I did type what I have in mind and I have no idea why you would respond with the fact that you quoted the SEP. I could maybe understand that you confu...

What do you think I meant - or was suggesting - when I said this? I still suspect things are going a bit over your head, but maybe I'm wrong. What did...

I guess you got me. Why did you mention one of your quotes was from the SEP? I'm not quick enough to understand, so please break it down for me.

Actually Willow, I began a long discussion, asserting nothing a priori, accepting Terrapin's answer on their own terms - until, in one post, he refuse...

..... I'm not sure how my post could have possibly gone over your head, but I guess it did. ( I was not calling your source into question? Why do you ...

We may have our differences but I've always considered you a professional <3

I've heard a lot of very smart, well-informed, professionals say this kind of thing. Similar to how they said he would never actually clinch the repub...

Oh, I just can't help myself, damn it. Bolding, below, is mine. Strangely, Terrapin's definition of personal identity is entirely different from the d...

That's true. I've had month-long conversations with TGW and a few others. I value those conversations a lot. TGW, in particular, I disagree with on al...

No worries, sorry I got prickly.

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thank you for your participation.

Sorry, Terrapin, we're not getting anywhere. Chalk that up to whatever you please.

It may just be a problem with the forum format, but I'm increasingly dismayed by how difficult it is to sustain a discussion. Too often single posts a...

Terrapin cited causality as one explanatory factor. This is what I was responding to - in terms of the argument, I'm making no commitment to any theor...

Obviously, causality is a very complex topic. Did I explain causality tout court? No, certainly not, nor was I trying to.

Ok, let's do a recap and recall how we got here. The first line of questioning established that you hold two important beliefs: A person has many many...

Yes, you gave a two or three sentence elaboration, and I responded to it very clearly, point by point. Here's that post again, since it's where you ap...

In all seriousness though, there's a point in any debate where you can tell your interlocutor has moved the goalposts way back in order to deflect the...

& We're done! Thanks for playing Terrapin. You've defended your position well! I raised some objections and you made the very good point of someone wh...

If you're willing to state, for the record, that a person who knows he is going to be tortured soon has no good reason to be anxious about his impendi...

Once more: You cited causality as a way of understanding why T1 Alex has good reason to be nervous about T2 Alex's suffering. Since the executioner is...

As far as I can tell the 'sense of self' is the only thing you've offered that explains why T1 alex is justified about being nervous about T2 Alex's a...

I'm not saying it has anything at all to do with it. You cited causality as a way of understanding why T1 Alex has good reason to be nervous about T2 ...

I think i might be losing you, Terrapin.

Ok. The executioner's muscles move a knife which cuts into Alex's flesh and his nerves and cause pain. I'm assuming you're not asking for the physio-m...

You're asking me to detail how the executioners knife is causally related to Alex's anguish?

And I clearly presented two ways of understanding the relationships between the two terms. Let me do it again. Does there exist any identity that pers...

True, but we're talking as peers aren't we. If you think that identity does not persist over time, then the very idea of personal identity is incohere...

If duty is too abstract (we can easily say, using your way of talking, that his sense of duty is a brain state and thereby reinscribe it in the chain ...

Fair enough. One might think that 'personal identity' is a subclass of the much broader class of 'identity' but if there is no identity over time, the...

Clearly you don't need the brain-state part to talk about identity-over-time in general, but we're talking about identity apropos of brain states and ...

Ok, got you. If Alex has brain state 1 at one time and brain state 2 at another time, then we're talking about two different Alexs. Thus if nervous Al...

And the countless brain states throughout an individuals life aren't identical to one another, right?

You might expect someone with username The17thStateUniversityBro to have a very specific outlook on this question - but don't judge a book by its cove...

So, since we're talking 15 minutes here, it would be fair to say that an individual goes through a lot of brain states throughout their life? (Especia...

Thank you. I understand that you feel pounced-upon, and I understand that any individual poster has limited bandwidth, especially when under siege. Th...

Good to hear. Would you be willing to answer the other questions I posed? Or not worth it? I still want to understand more about brain states, conscio...

I'm not sure quite what work 'dynamic' is doing here. States, as I understand them, are generally static. Or at least to consider something qua state,...

I don't think it's irrelevant.

I know you're not impressed by the OP's line of thought. Rather than try to sway you to that line of thinking, I think it'd be more fruitful to ask yo...

I actually started a thread on the old philosophy forums site about this very thing. I have that OP saved somewhere, I'll try to dig it up.

Honestly, this same problem has pestered me for a long time so it'a kind of a weird relief to see someone else independently come across it. I still w...

The OP's question is actually really good and more intractable than it appears, imo. All the answers along the line of well you won't exist after you ...

Yeah, I'm down for an extension, I got burnt out on V & P for a bit and had to take a break, but I'd like to still finish.

if people are free to speak their mind, harvard's likewise free to establish and enforce rules of conduct - it's not illegal to make a fuckability ind...

- when you zip up too early in the bathroom at work and you get a little dime-sized spot on your crotch and now you can't leave the bathroom because s...

I've always wondered about this. Because it's not quite clear what Kierkegaard meant by God. (He did a lot with God. A lot of it was leveraging God qu...