We have this commonsensical conception of ourselves that we are enduring entities. That I'm still the same I from childhood to now, and certainly I'm still the same person throughout mood changes etc. But it seems hard ... nay, impossible? to reconcile this commonsensical conception of the self with the idea that brains produce the "self" and consciousness.
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Age progression of myself
Below on the left is a photo of me taken back in 1985. I uploaded that photo to ChatGPT and said to it "Generate an image of what this ...
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Someone on twitter/X asked the following question: A mathematician emerges from a cave, hands you the photo below, and asks "Will a c... -
I recently read the following article: What the Buddha Didn't Teach About Reincarnation It says: "This is not to say that “we” ...
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Yesterday I had a conversation with Claude (an LLM similar to ChatGPT) about hemispherectomies (permanently removing half of one's brain...
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On the 13th January I discovered a lump on my neck. Eventually had an ultrasound and a fine needle aspiration. The lump was 4.2cms long and ... -
It keeps being claimed (eg David Papineau, Sean Carroll et al ) that if consciousness caused anything in the brain over and above physical c...
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I bought the Lenovo D32-45 PC Monitor 10 days ago (it's not available on Amazon). It cost £169.00 which I believe is about the cheapest...
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Just reading the following article: 20 years ago, we were all set for a Y2K disaster that wasn’t Article says: Patti Duncan stockpiled ...
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This is a continuation of the post about my cyst. I think it's sufficiently important to warrant a separate post. After asking many que...
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Someone said in a comment under a Guardian article: My solution to this problem is somewhat simplistic. I don't do social media. As in...
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It is said that all change in the world is purely due to physical forces playing out. These forces can ultimately be boiled down to the four...
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