Posted by alexandra_k on August 22, 2005, at 5:22:15
In reply to Re: I » alexandra_k, posted by Dinah on August 21, 2005, at 17:46:52
> Harry Anderson used to do a juggling act with an axe. And he'd hold up the axe and say "This is George Washington's axe. The head's been replaced. And the body's been replaced. But it occupies the same space."
Yeah, thats it.
And if you put the old head and the old body together then you have the same problem: which one is Washington's axe?> That sounds like an interesting idea for your doctorate.
Thanks. I guess I'll have to narrow it down one way or the other. But I'm more interested in the general view of listing the kinds of cognitive factors that are relevant (how much emotions can be reduced to desires for example) and considering the ways in which they interact.
Trouble is finding them in the brain.
I dunno. I expect I'll adopt a topic really.
I'd like to do emotions, though.
'Cause I don't understand them very well.
> I find it all very confusing. I just wish I *felt* more continuous.Yeah. I don't know what to say. I don't really feel discontinuous except for the missing time. And really regretting stuff. That I've said and done. Different emotional states. Maybe it is discontinuity. I don't know. I didn't even know that emotions were the problem. I just knew I hurt. I didn't know it was my emotions.
> Or even broken up between Board Dinah and Work Dinah, etc. Breaking up by mood state is way more confusing.Yeah.
I wish I didn't have emotions.
The felt quality at any rate.
But I guess we need emotions.
I wish mine were muted.
Theres gotta be a medication for that...
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