Re: A calculus of personal identity

From: John M <jamikes.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:22:02 -0700 (PDT)

--- Brent Meeker <meekerdb.domain.name.hidden> wrote:
to Stathis (excerpt):


> Well that's the question isn't it. Is there
> something besides memories and personality that
> makes you you...
 

But how much do we (already???) know about our
memories
which for sure is a concoction with our personality,
of which we just as well know very little.
Different people have different memories of the same
event (not only the biased eyewitnesses). \
Never ask a psych-professional because he may be just
as biased in "knowing his profession" as you are with
yours. (Stathis, no hard feelings, please, you have
disclosed a lot of thinking beyond your learned
topics)
We have a crude fractional picture of who we are and
what we know (or don't) and "memory" is a big mystery.
Bigger only is "personality".

John Mikes


> Could you feel that your memories belonged
> to somebody else? I think that no duplication
> is going to be perfect - it's just a question of
> whether the difference will be detectable with
> reasonable effort. If one remembers having a green
> pencil in the first grade and the other
> remembers having a blue one, how could anyone know
> which is right?
>
> Brent Meeker


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