What happens to the INTERNAL EYE???
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But the view faces a problem: what if surgeons imprinted your mental states on two pre-wiped brains: George Bush's and Gordon Brown's? Would you be in the White House or in Downing Street? There's nothing on which to base a sensible choice. Yet one person cannot be in two places at once.
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VERSION 1:
Say I go into a coma, and a year later, when I wake up, I'm a different person. My current internal eye has disapeared. I no longer exist.
But I do wake up. My body is still alive.
And say that when I wake up, the "new me" still has all the memories the "old me" did-- all the memories I had before I went into a coma. In fact, the "new me" still thinks he's me. He doesn't think a thing's changed. He has no idea my original internal eye has dissapeared, and that he's a different person.
VERSION 2:
Say I go into a coma, and during it, they swap my brain with another guys. But they "wipe" all the memories off this new brain, so he doesn't know who he is any more. And then they imprint all my memories onto this new, "wiped" brain.
So I wake up a year later. My body is still alive.
But its not ME.
The only problem is, since he has all my memories, the "new me" thinks he IS me. He doesn't think a thing's changed. He has no idea he's a new person. And he goes on living his life, thinking he's Sasha Rosenthal.
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What if this is happening ALL THE TIME?? What if it turned out that in fact I AM a different person than when I went to sleep, that in fact I have a DIFFERENT INTERNAL EYE, but that since I have all the same memories, and live in the same body, I can't tell the difference??
What if this happens EVERY MOMENT?
(Does it mean that the past and the future don't exist?) - zoo89 r on 2008-11-23