antagon
The Man
- Dec 6, 2009
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this is a contrarian construct of the mind, in turn a construct of the brain.i see our consciousness being a construct of our mind, in turn a construct of our brain.
What of dissociative personality disorder?
i'm not sure what you mean... not about the androidization, but about the 'person' status. i think when we are crippled, we are perceived by others to be made less a man or unwhole or something like that, but we axiomatically affirm people's identity despite that. 'he's still a person.' 'retards are people, too.' i think the self awareness which i referred to is a faculty of a mind with a certain capacity which most humans enjoy and which we largely have in common. i've found that it adapts to our physicality as if operating our body as it is. short and high-voiced as a child, strong and capable in our prime then regressing to frailty as it gets older. the impression through these changes is that the awareness stays the same notwithstanding altering the body.Would 'you' still exist if all your fleshy parts were incrementally replaced until you were wholly something artificial? Would you still be a person?
if each half had self-awareness and was able to perceive that there were more than one of itself operating independently, if that is what is being proposed, then i would think there would be independent self consciousness. it's an extension of the idea of reproduction whereby cells from the parents beget an independent individual. if someone were split as such or replicated, there would be two identities perceived severally by each, even if they thought they were the single original progenitor.If you brain, or whatever system we were left with from the above experiment were to be split in two in such a matter than each half functioned independently and was self-aware, would 'you' still exist, or would 'you' cease to exist as we were left with two new 'persons'?
i'm taking this all along lines of perception by the minds of first and third parties. i'm not sure if that is what this exercise is about. as far as identity goes, i dont think there is such a thing without perception. dunno.