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Article 7495 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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Subject: Re: Simulated Brain
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>From: system@CODEWKS.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 92 15:44:21 NZST
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burt@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Burt Voorhees) writes:

> I would say that this persistent sense of identity across
> multiple states of being, and even across multiple
> personalities, could be explained easily in terms
> of an assumed a priori consciousness which has the
> capacity of intentional identification with structures
> in an individuals mind.
> bv


Just me being annoying again. How do you know there is a persistent 
state of identity? You have no contact with these other states of 
being. You only have historical knowledge, and you would need to make 
all sorts of assumptions about the reliability of that knowledge.
It may be an inevitable consequence of the wiring in the human brain 
that we falsely perceive continutity of identity in ourselves, when in 
fact no such continuity exists.

-- 
  Wayne McDougall, BCNU
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