[ExI] Fwd: Open Individualism

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 15/01/2024 04:40, Jason Resch wrote:
> Open Individualism argues that, at a fundamental level, all conscious
>
> beings share a common underlying consciousness or personhood.

A common underlying conscousness or personhood that each person is 
nevertheless completely unaware of, except via theoretical discussions 
like this.

No, I don't buy it.

If I'm part of an underlying consciousness, but am somehow not actually 
conscious of it, then for all practical purposes it might as well not be 
so (if you're part of a consciousness, but not conscious of it, what 
does that mean? -  nothing, as far as I can see. Certainly nothing useful).

I see no practical application of this idea, and no actual evidence that 
it's true, so feel quite justified in concluding that it's not, or at 
least that there's no actual downside to assuming that it's not true.

Again, a bit like the idea of the simulation argument and the 
many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. Theoretically 
interesting, to some people, but of no actual use. We're no worse off, 
in real terms, than if we had never heard of it.

Ben
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