[ExI] Midazolam, Memory Erasure, and Identity

Lee Corbin lcorbin at rawbw.com
Sun Jul 15 17:35:40 UTC 2007


Stathis writes


> 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.

I think that you are resorting to deconstructing entirely what is meant
by "person".  So can you tell me just what it is that you hope survives
from month to month?

Lee




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