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guerrilla
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What’s so hard about understanding consciousness?
Yeah, you need a theory of identity to answer your questions, first year philosophy sutff [1].
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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/
pessimizer
on Feb 4, 2022
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Exactly. But having a theory of identity is just a declaration that you subscribe to one, not anything meaningful.
guerrilla
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Umm, no. Having a theory of identity allows you to deduce the answers to your questions.
pessimizer
on Feb 4, 2022
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Based on an arbitrary choice. I can deduce as many answers to my questions as theories of identity that I can count. None of them will give me any insight into the question of subjectivity.
guerrilla
on Feb 5, 2022
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If it's an arabitrary choice then the problem is entirely you.
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1. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/