Steven definitely isnt his mom though! Like when the gem is taoen out it becomes VERY CLEAR that pink is wiped, she isnt there anymore
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Replying to @GhaspeyVO @Nymphomachy
Well... what if the brain damage in Gail's hypothetical were definitively ruled by medical science to be permanent and irreversible (as it usually is irl)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
I dobt know honestly. Id have to read some ethics texts lol W steven though, like, he was born as a baby, w a unique body from rose, and was raised as a totally new person w no memory of the past life- and thus IS a totally new person. He isnt rose, and he isnt responsible.
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Replying to @GhaspeyVO @Nymphomachy
I don't know that it's an easy conversation Like, my nihilistic take when I really think about it is "Do any of us really, like, exist" There are all kinds of "naturally occurring" neuro/psych conditions that can fuck up continuity of consciousness as bad as some drugs can
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We're all of us, no matter what, going to experience *some* kind of neurological deterioration as we get older and the brain wears out as all physical systems do, unless we're lucky enough to die suddenly of something else first Is anyone the same person they were 30 years ago
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You're not the "same person" you were thirty MINUTES ago. The idea of a continuous self is a lie your brain is telling itself.
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Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect and
"Personality" is, like, 80% mood + memories + skills, and 20% microphysical brain structure. This is one of the things Buddhism got right long before the neuroscientists caught up.
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Replying to @iridienne @arthur_affect and
We treat people as continuous selves for most purposes because it's CONVENIENT (and it'd be hard to organize a society along principles of "nobody can be held accountable for anything they did more than five minutes ago"), but it's a convenient fiction.
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The memories are there in more ingrained ways than the simple act of remembering them- thats the real thing I was getting at. Those paths and past actions form a form of ingrained muscle memory of personality that has been shown via studies
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You are using some really fucked-up, handwavey "psychological" terms here that don't make any sense. "ingrained muscle memory of personality"? No. That doesn't exist. There's no such thing.
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I mean... okay, I don't want to be ableist here but I don't think it's ableist to say the concept of a "personality disorder" does, in fact, exist
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I blocked her, I don't really want to meet people on the aggressive and demeaning level she was talking to everyone in this thread at. The convo and thoughts w you though Arthur are interesting excersizes! I've enjoyed it!
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