[ExI] Time and Personal Identity

[efc at disroot.org]

On Fri, 7 Mar 2025, Brent Allsop wrote:

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> On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM efc--- via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>       On Thu, 6 Mar 2025, Brent Allsop wrote:
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>       > It is the binding referred to in the "binding problem".
>       > You have knowledge of what you see in your brain.  I am not directly aware of that knowledge, due to lack of subjective
>       binding. 
>       > Half of my visual knowledge is in my brain's Left hemisphere, and Visa versa for the right.   I am directly aware of
>       all of it,
>       > because of subjective binding. (Via corpus callosum)
>       > This is why both of my brain hemispheres are included in my identity, while your brain is not.
>       > Binding is basically computation.  For example, two memory registers can be bound in a CPU.
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>       Got it, thank you Brent.
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>       Could you imagine expanding the binding to things beyond the brain? To our
>       bodies, and to our environment anchored in space and time?
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> Yes, see our "Neural Ponytail" video on exactly this.
> Also of note, I can 'perceive' the knowledge in other's brains, from afar, through cause and effect based senses, but this is very
> different from directly apprehending through subjectived binding.
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> perceive_vs_apprehend.png

Thank you Brent, thought provoking!

Best regards,
Daniel


> Oh, and did I mention that since neural ponytails are infallible, they could falsify things like solipsism and such?
>       I guess what
>       I'm trying to say is that perhaps identity is a connecting process, that
>       binds together not only the brain, but the brain and surrounding "things"
>       and anchors them in time and space?
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