I have a problem with the definition: patternism doesn’t fall automatically out of reductionism / naturalism, so it’s not automatically accepted by those who accept cryonics.
Can you help me with this?
It seems to me:
‘reductionism/naturalism’ + ‘continuity of consciousness in time’ + ‘no tiny little tags on particles that make up a conscious mind’ = ‘patternism’
Are you saying that there’s something wrong with the latter two summands? Or it doesn’t quite add up?
I have a problem with the definition: patternism doesn’t fall automatically out of reductionism / naturalism, so it’s not automatically accepted by those who accept cryonics.
Can you help me with this?
It seems to me:
‘reductionism/naturalism’ + ‘continuity of consciousness in time’ + ‘no tiny little tags on particles that make up a conscious mind’ = ‘patternism’
Are you saying that there’s something wrong with the latter two summands? Or it doesn’t quite add up?