After being steeped in personal identity theory for the better part of the last three months (i.e. what makes you YOU over time), I’m starting to think that there’s something deeper going on at the level of the physics that guarantees a unique consciousness for a given set of memories.
Are you planning to organize your thoughts in a blog post or article? Clearly the character limit of FC isn’t suitable for me to ask you to please elaborate
Consciousness is byproduct of computaion taking place in ones brain. Free will is illusion. Every choice one makes is determined by bio chemistry that is slave to laws of physics. So you are right. Give a brain state (memories), you get deterministic consciousness.
("personal identity theory") 🧠🙈🙉🙊 Sam, within that, have you been looking at Michael Levin's, the computational biology researcher's, concepts of "Self" as emergent strategy within intelligent systems? -- Super keen to hear what you've been arriving at on this topic @sam! So fascinating.
I think you might enjoy this exploration grounded in the neuroscience of Lisa Feldman-Barrett https://www.gillesdc.com/brain/start
You might enjoy this exploration grounded in the work of neuroscientist Lisa Feldman-Barrett cc @aviationdoctor.eth https://www.gillesdc.com/brain/start
There’s a concept in Hinduism called the atman. You might find this interesting. It says that you are not the mind or the body, you are the spirit, and consciousness is a level on top of the spirit. https://iskconeducationalservices.org/HoH/concepts/key-concepts/atman-the-self/