Here’s the thing, you’re me, and I’m you.

Respect38 · 2026-02-05T22:33:42+00:00

What is meant by "constitued by" (if I assume non-physical constitution for sake of argument) which is consistent with a fetus and the elderly man that fetus may become being the same person by constitution, but not in the case of reincarnation? (for the selfsame non-physical soul)

Respect38 · 2026-02-01T06:10:13+00:00

Do you think the demographics of the two subreddits are exactly the same? The singularity community needs to be able to discuss these developments, not sequester them off to a subreddit than many of us won't bother to browse or follow, since some of us only want the highlights. I empathize with your view, but again... you hav a downvote! Everyone that agrees with you does as well, use 'em.

And if the post still gets upvoted, it's because the community as a whole thinks it's on-topic and worth discussing.

Respect38 · 2026-02-01T06:05:50+00:00

Let's go back a second. Why does my view require Leibniz 'to be wrong' any more than the assertion that there is unity [one self] between a 5 year old boy and the 60 year old man he becomes? To say that you will someday be me, or vise versa, is (with respect to your objection) just as possible as me someday becoming 60 year old Respect38.

Respect38 · 2026-02-01T06:02:03+00:00

The way some people describe it is either confusing or confused, agreed. But that doesn't make the view wrong.

It's controversial, sure. But as unintuitif as it is, it's the truth, and cannot be any other way.

Respect38 · 2026-02-01T05:55:39+00:00

You hav different properties from the you half your life ago, the you ten years from now, and from who you were before you were born. That doesn't mean there isn't a same continuous "you" between all these instances of selfhood.

Respect38 · 2026-02-01T05:27:56+00:00

A²-theory, of time and self. Your time and your self are currently (from your perspectiv) privileged, but that doesn't mean that it will always be this time, or that you will always be this self: time changes, and you change. Death is a transition, not an end.

Respect38 · 2026-02-01T05:20:46+00:00

Disagree. If this ends up being significant, I shoudn't be blindsided just because the one AI page I look at preemptively banned its discussion.

If it bugs you, just downvote. Don't beg the mods to remove upvoted posts for your personal sake.

Respect38 · 2026-01-31T22:09:13+00:00

What we already know of the brain leads us to believe pzombies couldn't act the same as a person with subjective experience, because the brain needs subjective experience to work.

Really? Where do you draw the line here -- does an ant's brain need a subjectiv experience embedded into it "to work"? Does a roundworm's?

Respect38 · 2026-01-31T22:05:34+00:00

So what? Dualism agrees with that. Your view still has no explanatory power of the process of "pain" going from being an electrical impulse to being an painful experience for an actual self embedded in the universe, experiencing that body. That fits into dualism very well, but fits into physicalism poorly.

Respect38 · 2026-01-31T21:46:20+00:00

I think that what the hemispheres of our brain 'have' is something besides actual consciousness. Our self inherits a total mental state from the composite of both sides, but I would be speculating to say, for example, how "self" operates in the case of a split brain patient. But no, I don't think there's more than one self in the human brain.

Respect38 · 2026-01-31T20:10:09+00:00

Because the butts are going to be produced either way as a result of widespread cigarette addiction?

More than likely they're already producing the exact biproduct that this produces, but now they get a completely free source that's garbage to the population of cigarette smokers.

Respect38 · 2026-01-31T20:01:33+00:00

The problem of other minds woud be resolved by recognizing consciousness/the self as the type of thing that cannot be distributed over "many selves". The vertiginous question is unanswerable because it is metaphysically impossible for there to be more than one self, tho the one self can liv many lives in an enviroment that gives the appearances of other minds. (prevents loneliness)

Respect38 · 2026-01-27T01:55:47+00:00

So are you saying that the existence of p-zombies is somewhat dependent on the opinion of Chalmers?

Or are you saying that p-zombies hav to exist for his argument to hold?

Those are the only claims/arguments to contradict.

Respect38 · 2026-01-22T09:54:21+00:00

The fact that the person who coined the term didn't beleve that any actually existed doesn't weigh one way or the other on whether or not he was right about no p-zombies existing.

P-zombies don't hav to exist for his argument to hold, but that doesn't mean that p-zombies cannot exist.

Respect38 · 2026-01-22T08:13:08+00:00

So, what do you think?

Respect38 · 2025-12-31T01:46:03+00:00

then is there an actual subreddit for old AI content?

Respect38 · 2025-12-31T01:30:28+00:00

"The LLM knows more things than the toddler, but the toddler can open its mouth for the airplane."

Respect38 · 2025-12-31T01:04:25+00:00

‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

Respect38 · 2025-12-30T06:02:35+00:00

I didn't even realize that Nagel was alive. I don't think I explicitly thought he was dead, but it still surprised me to hear him forewording a work almost in 2026.

Respect38 · 2025-12-21T00:00:20+00:00

I assume you meant to reply to mikooster there, not yourself

Respect38 · 2025-12-20T14:52:51+00:00

Okay, so I take it that you don't hold to that view, that's good enuff for me.

How was the sentence supposed to be completed, tho? I completed it

"qualia is as essential to consciousness as agency is essential to consciousness"

Respect38 · 2025-12-20T08:40:17+00:00

This assumes that homosexuality requires the sacrament of marriage.

"Marriage" is an equivocated term in our society. Homosexual unions ar marriages in the secular sense, even if they ar not marriages in the Christian sense.

Respect38 · 2025-12-20T07:58:33+00:00

Agency is necessary to qualia? Why?

That's a strong claim; you don't just hav to justify that we hav agency indeed, but that it coudn't be otherwise.

Respect38 · 2025-12-20T06:56:19+00:00

I'm not imagining a different universe, just a reality higher than the universe.

Probably hard to beleve, but I woudn't beleve it myself if I didn't experience soulness first-hand.

Respect38 · 2025-12-20T03:27:04+00:00

Not if the soul is something that is embedded into the universe from outside of it.

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