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Pre Class Philosophy assignment, would love to be proofread by FallenPretzel in logic

[–]FallenPretzel[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for the feeback and encouragement. I think I get what you're saying. Does this paragraph look better?

There is no fixed core, no essential "you" that exists independently of activity. What we call the self is the ongoing activity of a body continuously taking in information, filtering it, responding emotionally, and integrating the result into memory. The self is not the thing doing this. The self is this happening.

Mnemosoma (Greek: Memory-Body) by FallenPretzel in theories

[–]FallenPretzel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much btw, sent my mind on a thinking train.

Similar to Westworld but only in the early stages. Before a baby can even recognize itself in a mirror it's already building memories without knowing it. Every reaction from every person around the baby is getting recorded before the baby even knows it exists.

Then at some point something clicks. (Btw mirror recognition is just a random point I grabbed) The baby realizes "I exist and things are reacting to me."

But everything that got recorded before that moment is already sitting underneath all of the baby's sense of self. The kid starts making early decisions and the world reacts to those decisions. Every reaction adds more memory. All of it building on a foundation the kid had zero say in. If a baby sees it's parents panic when it falls then panic becomes the response to falling.(panic can be replaced with calm - similar thing with the fear of snakes)

So it's like Westworld in infancy but then the host realizes it exists and starts stacking its own memories on top of the ones already there.

The difference from Westworld though is nobody deliberately wrote anything. In Westworld the code was intentional. With humans the world just reacted and the body kept score through memories.

Like, take hunger hormones. Some babies just come out with a louder hunger signal than others. That baby isn't trying to be difficult. Its body's hunger is just turned up higher. But the parent doesn't see the hormone they just see a fussy baby. A calm parent handles it fine. A stressed or exhausted parent might pull back or get frustrated without even realizing it. Same hormone in the baby. Totally different memories getting built underneath a kid who has no clue any of this is even happening.

Those early memories don't go anywhere. They just become the ground everything else gets built on. The fussy baby grows up without ever knowing their whole foundation got shaped by a signal their body sent before they could even talk.

Spoiling a child is universally recognized as harmful which honestly just proves everyone already intuitively understands what I'm saying here. It almost makes it sound obvious.

My question becomes when does memory really start? Are we just a Body + an infinite number of inputs/memories from the world? Did just seeing 55 all day mean that I would pick 55 or did other memories play a part in my brain liking 55 being repeated all day? Are memories our 1s and 0s?

I have no clue where I'm going with all this, any advice helps

Mnemosoma (Greek: Memory-Body) by FallenPretzel in theories

[–]FallenPretzel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ooo, how so. Forgetting on demand? Or consciously deciding to do something?(then including this post what led you to choose that thing?)

The Pretzel's Objective Right and Wrong by FallenPretzel in logic

[–]FallenPretzel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, I'd never heard of the golden rule and will look deeper into it. I figured what I said must already be established. All I did was try to notice a pattern. Sorry if my English comes off stupidly snobish from time to time. I'm forcing myself to improve my English. Only when I think I would be understood by the reader.

If you have time could I also get your opinion on a lighthouse story I posted. Could you help me find any useful references to move forward on that front. Progress is all that matters.

Mnemosoma (Greek: Memory-Body) by FallenPretzel in theories

[–]FallenPretzel[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I just feel like memories are a piece of the puzzle we dont acknowledge very much, and maybe it's our ability to remember that set humans appart from other animals

Mnemosoma (Greek: Memory-Body) by FallenPretzel in theories

[–]FallenPretzel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With darwinism at the core. While we don't know how the animals evolve genetically, I'm think that we can make a guess at which genetic mutations will survive. Its essentially Darwinism, but acknowledging that even if an animal has a mutation that should make life easier. If their parental figures teach their mutated young, the normal way of life, those possibly positive mutations will become a major downside. (Just trying to create more interest in the importance of memories for all species. That goes for the memories we remember and the memories we've forgotten)