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> Our sense of me-ness seems real but it probably shouldn't be from a scientific POV. Everything we observe goes through our first-person-perspective, therefor
by dvt 5y ago
> Our sense of me-ness seems real but it probably shouldn't be from a scientific POV.
Everything we observe goes through our first-person-perspective, therefore there's no such thing as a "scientific" POV. We come to consensus, true, but it's still through first-person-experiential phenomena, and not some kind of external "science" validator.
> The borders of me-ness are also interesting to consider. There's already a slight feeling that tech like cellphones could become an extension of our body.
I'm not sure what cellphones have to do with anything, there are much better examples of the "fuzziness" of identity: conjoined twins, multiple personality, schizophrenia, dementia, corpus callosotomy, etc. These are all edge cases, though. We still barely understand the degenerate case.
- PeterisP 5y agoLooking at edge cases often is the best way to find and understand the boundaries of something, to more clearly define it by looking at edge cases and seeing where certain "core" attributes persist or disappear.
- trevyn 5y ago> some kind of external "science" validator I dunno, we have some pretty exquisite sensing machines today. Including machines that can sense the workings of the hardware running our first-person-experiential experiences. Just because the bitstream happens to come in today via our eyeballs doesn’t make the actual bitstream any less objective and truthy.