<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/11/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lee Corbin</b> <<a href="mailto:lcorbin@rawbw.com">lcorbin@rawbw.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Robert writes [P.S. Robert, your text comes out HTML here, I've reformatted it]</blockquote><div><br>Hmmm... I thought Gmail was sending it out "mixed", I'll check that. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I object, your honor! If you took away my *entire* last year's<br>memories, especially including my current thoughts, then I'd<br>be identical to what I was last year! And by my measure,<br>that's about 99% Lee Corbin.</blockquote>
<div><br>That's because *most* of "Lee" got formed someplace between the ages of about 6 months and 15 or so. After that its mostly patches and losses. There might be some exceptions (people who very actively educate themselves for 6-8 hours a day 6 days a week).
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I *think* they'll say that they're still human, and even chatise you for<br>wondering. Moreover, I'll predict that they'll say that their loved ones
<br>are still the same people, but something profoundly important is missing,<br>that's all.</blockquote><div><br>Yes, there are definitely some parts missing from the automobile.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Mike Perry, in his book "Forever For All", gives the position that I<br>think mostly correct. Consider that there is a "core" you, consisting<br>of your long term memories, beliefs, behavior dispositions, and values.
<br>Then there is a more superficial-you, which gets layered onto the<br>core-you. Mike claims that arbitrarily many layers can be added<br>without threat to one's core identity. I, myself, am a little skeptical;<br>that's why I've gone for the "give backups runtime" solution.
</blockquote><div><br>Interesting. I'd probably agree with that view as would most neuroscientists who focus on development.<br><br>With respect to William Calvin, it would require a long note to go into his ideas and I wouldn't want to misexplain them as its been a while since I've read them. But the two books sitting on my shelf are "How Brains Think" and "The Cerebral Code". I think if you read them you would understand why I am saying that one can treat neural patterns as memes. I think he may have written some more recent books as well but I haven't read them. See [1].
<br><br>Robert<br><br>1. <a href="http://www.williamcalvin.com/">http://www.williamcalvin.com</a><br></div></div>