Multiplicity of self arguments

File name multiplicity of self arguments File created date 02:53 am Wednesday, October 18 2006

Arguments for the potential multiplicity of the self

What are the argument for a different person having the same consciousness over time being a case of survival for the original?

First argument is for identity of consciousness

Second argument is for that this is a case of survival for the original

Same memories and belief that he experienced these memories

Belief that he is the same person not that he is new or different

Injustice or justice argument It makes the universe a moral place or good place because if this other person is actually a case of survival for the original then where there is injustice for people there is the chance to undo this injustice

Language bias argument There is the prejudice of words argument “sun rises and the sun set “ we tie a person to his body except when we tie a person to his soul

If we do not carefully state the ideas we create oxymorons

The right consciousness is the key what we want for survival and that you experience that consciousness

if there is no soul then what determines the person the body but this is insufficient

what do we mean when we say someone else experiences your identical consciousness first there has to be traits that are different from yours but there are none we can imagine the person experiencing your life through their eyes but this would not be the same consciousness. Scientifically we either define the person as a body or a consciousness or both there is nothing else scientifically no soul etc.

Perception bias argument we see ourselves as singular, individual, private, unique, not potentially multiple. It is unthinkable to be multiple by definition of self The synonym for individual are human being, soul, person private --definite, discrete, lone, separate, single, solitary,

human being --- mortal

separate

like looking at the earth from a distance it is much different from

In early pictures of the earth from a distance they did not include the clouds they assumed that the clouds were so small and thin that they would not be visible so they though the earth would look like globe of the earth.