Posted by unbottled on October 16, 2007, at 15:09:43
In reply to Re: Designing drugs and Hume's Analogy » unbottled, posted by Squiggles on October 16, 2007, at 13:40:32
I desperately have to vent about PayPal instead -
so writing this stuff is handy. %^) But, maybe
better done on Babblemail?>If a brain were
> entirely replaced with another of different
> "hardware" but identical "software" you would
> not be able to tell the difference.Not possible. Hardware = software, as I
understand it. Hardware is plastic, not only
that but software a) could be said to consist
of hardware "artifacts", b) software becomes
hardware in time anyway.Also, if I'm grouchy old me sans MAOi, that's
at five o'clock. By seven, I'm friendly, forward
MAOi-enhanced "Mr. Hyde" me.So, the five o'clock me *will* make
rationalizations and so on about Hyde, whereas
Mr. Hyde himself, at seven-thirty, can laugh
about that prissy Mr. Jekyl with his
childish inhibitions.So. All memories are there, all behaviours are
understood. I know, in other words, when I've
been cheating %^)Yes?
> the person be different. But if significant
> aspects of the personality were changed, those
> observing the person they knew, would detect
> the change. The person himself, would not I think, as that would require either two memories,
> or two brains. If confronted with "what has
> happened to you, you're not the same person anymore", chances are rationalizations and
> fabrications would be the defensive response to
> a threatening question.
>
> Sorry to go on about this -- it's really curious.
>
> Squiggles
>
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