[extropy-chat] Detectives and red herrings (was Survivaltangent)

[Robert Bradbury]

On 11/10/06, Lee Corbin <lcorbin at rawbw.com> wrote:
> Mike writes
>
> > If you lose memories, do you lose your self?
>
> Yes.

It might be interesting to know whether you can ask the same thing
about beliefs?

If you lose beliefs, do you lose your self?

I can cite the point when I was perhaps 14 or 15 and had to choose
between science and catholicism.  The person who ended up choosing
science was *not* the same individual as the one who believed in
catholicism.  But I still have vague memories of his existance and his
beliefs.

As I've observed myself evolve over the last decade (yes, I'm am now
more than a decade old in extropian terms) I see myself losing more
and more of my attachment to the current physical embodiement and more
and more comfort with memory states and computational vectors derived
mostly or even partly from my "self".

Robert