[ExI] Midazolam, Memory Erasure, and Identity

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Sun Jul 15 12:23:07 UTC 2007


On 15/07/07, Lee Corbin <lcorbin at rawbw.com> wrote:

> I've always called that the horrid "Anticipation Dilemma".  At one point
> in 1986 I couldn't even code because of it:  I'd pace the halls at work
> trying to figure out exactly why I didn't have to anticipate with great
> relish the dinner I'd had the night before!

The problem goes away if you acknowledge that there is no *logical*
reason to consider that you are the same person from moment to moment,
but rather that it is just a matter of evolutionary expedience.




-- 
Stathis Papaioannou



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