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neil_swann80 · 10-23-2023, 10:47 PM

Even if we do exist, are we the same person that wakes each day?

Sirtel · 10-23-2023, 11:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DNSB

Have you not read of solipsism where the only item I can be certain of is that I exist?

Of course I have, but do I agree with it, when I'm actually not certain I myself exist any more than I'm certain others exist? None of us may actually exist at all, and isn't it even likely it's all a big illusion?

Sirtel · 10-23-2023, 11:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by neil_swann80

Even if we do exist, are we the same person that wakes each day?

Isn't perceiving time as moving from the past to the future, always in one direction, an illusion? Don't the past, the present and the future actually exist all at the same time?

neil_swann80 · 10-23-2023, 11:59 PM

Are you familiar with the thought experiment "the Ship of Theseus"?

Sirtel · 10-24-2023, 12:13 AM

Did anyone else google it just now?

neil_swann80 · 10-24-2023, 12:25 AM

RE: Ship of Theseus: the average age of the cells in the human body is 7-10 years... from decade to decade what of "YOU" abides?

Sirtel · 10-24-2023, 12:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by neil_swann80

RE: Ship of Theseus: the average age of the cells in the human body is 7-10 years... from decade to decade what of "YOU" abides?

Doesn't it depend on what is meant by YOU?

neil_swann80 · 10-24-2023, 12:37 AM

Is sentience just the universe experiencing itself from many perspectives?

Sirtel · 10-24-2023, 12:48 AM

Whose perspectives?

neil_swann80 · 10-24-2023, 12:53 AM

All simultaneously? Everything, everywhere, all at once?

Sirtel · 10-24-2023, 01:05 AM

If we're all just perspectives and the universe is one entity, how can there exist different perspectives at all?

neil_swann80 · 10-24-2023, 02:03 AM

How can multiple personalities exist in one brain?

Sirtel · 10-24-2023, 02:49 AM

Are you suggesting the universe suffers from the dissociative identity disorder? The main cause for that is an early childhood trauma... was the universe abused in its childhood?

neil_swann80 · 10-24-2023, 02:52 AM

Perhaps our universe as a child walked into space-time without knocking and witnessed a big bang?

Sirtel · 10-24-2023, 02:58 AM

So we're basically delusions of a sick mind?

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10-23-2023, 10:47 PM	#15526
neil_swann80 0000000000101010 Posts: 5,894 Karma: 12981955 Join Date: Mar 2023 Location: An island off the coast of Ireland Device: PB632 [HD3]	Even if we do exist, are we the same person that wakes each day?

10-23-2023, 11:59 PM	#15529
neil_swann80 0000000000101010 Posts: 5,894 Karma: 12981955 Join Date: Mar 2023 Location: An island off the coast of Ireland Device: PB632 [HD3]	Are you familiar with the thought experiment "the Ship of Theseus"?

10-24-2023, 12:13 AM	#15530
Sirtel Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,642 Karma: 241126341 Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Estonia Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2	Did anyone else google it just now?

10-24-2023, 12:25 AM	#15531
neil_swann80 0000000000101010 Posts: 5,894 Karma: 12981955 Join Date: Mar 2023 Location: An island off the coast of Ireland Device: PB632 [HD3]	RE: Ship of Theseus: the average age of the cells in the human body is 7-10 years... from decade to decade what of "YOU" abides?

10-24-2023, 12:37 AM	#15533
neil_swann80 0000000000101010 Posts: 5,894 Karma: 12981955 Join Date: Mar 2023 Location: An island off the coast of Ireland Device: PB632 [HD3]	Is sentience just the universe experiencing itself from many perspectives?

10-24-2023, 12:48 AM	#15534
Sirtel Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,642 Karma: 241126341 Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Estonia Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2	Whose perspectives?

10-24-2023, 12:53 AM	#15535
neil_swann80 0000000000101010 Posts: 5,894 Karma: 12981955 Join Date: Mar 2023 Location: An island off the coast of Ireland Device: PB632 [HD3]	All simultaneously? Everything, everywhere, all at once?

10-24-2023, 01:05 AM	#15536
Sirtel Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,642 Karma: 241126341 Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Estonia Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2	If we're all just perspectives and the universe is one entity, how can there exist different perspectives at all?

10-24-2023, 02:03 AM	#15537
neil_swann80 0000000000101010 Posts: 5,894 Karma: 12981955 Join Date: Mar 2023 Location: An island off the coast of Ireland Device: PB632 [HD3]	How can multiple personalities exist in one brain?

10-24-2023, 02:49 AM	#15538
Sirtel Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,642 Karma: 241126341 Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Estonia Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2	Are you suggesting the universe suffers from the dissociative identity disorder? The main cause for that is an early childhood trauma... was the universe abused in its childhood?

10-24-2023, 02:52 AM	#15539
neil_swann80 0000000000101010 Posts: 5,894 Karma: 12981955 Join Date: Mar 2023 Location: An island off the coast of Ireland Device: PB632 [HD3]	Perhaps our universe as a child walked into space-time without knocking and witnessed a big bang?

10-24-2023, 02:58 AM	#15540
Sirtel Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,642 Karma: 241126341 Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Estonia Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2	So we're basically delusions of a sick mind?