[ExI] Continuity of experience
Stathis Papaioannou
stathisp at gmail.com
Mon Mar 1 00:33:28 UTC 2010
On 1 March 2010 06:02, Spencer Campbell <lacertilian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Technically, C has a different mind from A or B. The brain is doing
> something different in C. For some reason or another, M makes the leap
> from A to B to C, skittering across many different minds over time.
I guess you are talking about M making a leap as a sort of analogy,
but it can be a misleading one. For continuity of experience it is
necessary *and* sufficient that the right sorts of mental states occur
in A, B and C. M does not add anything to the explanation and does not
go leaping.
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Stathis Papaioannou
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