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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/01/2024 04:40, Jason Resch wrote:<br>
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<pre>Open Individualism argues that, at a fundamental level, all conscious
beings share a common underlying consciousness or personhood.</pre>
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A common underlying conscousness or personhood that each person is
nevertheless completely unaware of, except via theoretical
discussions like this.<br>
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No, I don't buy it.<br>
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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).<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Ben<br>
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