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Any normal person is able to remember, in any given moment, the "experience" (in a very broad sense - meaning cognitive and emotional processes) it had in its r
by alansammarone 9y ago
Any normal person is able to remember, in any given moment, the "experience" (in a very broad sense - meaning cognitive and emotional processes) it had in its recent past (modulo memory limitations caused by various factors). Wouldn't that imply that there is a single consciousness inside each brain? i.e a single "state machine"?
- chongli 9y agoBladerunner did a fantastic job of challenging this idea. If your memories can't be trusted then who are you, really?
- vbuwivbiu 9y agoa thread of experience = a consciousness yes, but you'd have no consciousness of any other such threads of experience that may be instantiated by your brain
- monort 9y agoMultiple consciousnesses can have the same experience in parallel. Experiments with a split brain patients shows that they probably have two personalities concurrently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain#Case_studies_of_split-brain_patients https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain#Case_studies_of_sp...