Wed 26 Apr 2006
The Design-A-Day update will be a little late this evening…the NewEgg Fairy made a visit, and I’m taking my machine off-line for (I hope) a few minutes. If the design fails to appear, send tech support.
In the meantime, here is a conundrum to tease your brain:
If an advanced genetic therapy could give you youthful, healthy immortality, but destroyed all of your memories in the process, would you take it?
Discuss.
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September 25th, 2006 at 9:47 pm |
I hadn’t considered the possability of memories, and a sence of self-consionsness being different entities…interesting.
September 24th, 2006 at 6:40 pm |
One of the questions I would pose is, how much of who we are is a function of our memories (a large part, I believe), and how much is a function of the deep structures of our brains, the way our limbic system is wired, etc?
If only the memories were destroyed, you would doubtless develop as a different person…but how different?
And what about the conscious sense of self that tells us “I am I,” even when we are not accessing our memories? If that countinues unbroken, then I think the experience would be different from death, and different from reincarnation.
September 22nd, 2006 at 12:01 am |
Of course not. You’d may as well be a believer in reincarnation- ie: you may be reborn as someone else, but with no idea of your past life.