"an adaptive form of self-deception, namely, an illusion of personal identity across time" http://edge.org/response-detail/25446 …
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing "your current self dies every time a new neuron fires!!!!" was a little morbid1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @cwage
@cwage@sarahdoingthing And incoherent. Whole lot of straw men and non-sequiturs in that essay.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing@cwage Sure. Guy lost me when he argued 'the self doesn't exist 2/3rds of the time, therefore it doesn't exist at all'.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @St_Rev
@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing@cwage He’s got a deeply confused theory of self. Appeals to Buddhists who don’t understand it.4 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness
@Meaningness Can you give a twitter version summary of what's wrong with it? Pretty please! :)5 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@AtaraxJim It’s based on mental representations which explicitly have no causal realization and therefore are “spooky”—non-physical.
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