Actually, we could define three levels of Self and they will correspond to different types of individualism.
“Atman” level—universal light of attention, which is present in any observer. It corresponds to open individualism if I care only about pure attention.
Qualia level—the combination of qualia which I experience now. Empty individualism.
Long-term memory level or “historical Self”—closed individualism.
Some think that the atman level is real and it is a universal observer which looks through all really existing observers. In that case, we could calculate chances that the universal observer will observe some peculiar observer-moment. But in physicalism “atman” is not real.
The ideas of “death” and “personal identity” are applicable only on the third level.
Most philosophers tend to say that only one of these three levels are real and-or valuable and thus they have to chose between the types of individualism. For me all three are valuable.
If I am interested in self-location believes, I mostly think about them using the third level,
Actually, we could define three levels of Self and they will correspond to different types of individualism.
“Atman” level—universal light of attention, which is present in any observer. It corresponds to open individualism if I care only about pure attention.
Qualia level—the combination of qualia which I experience now. Empty individualism.
Long-term memory level or “historical Self”—closed individualism.
Some think that the atman level is real and it is a universal observer which looks through all really existing observers. In that case, we could calculate chances that the universal observer will observe some peculiar observer-moment. But in physicalism “atman” is not real.
The ideas of “death” and “personal identity” are applicable only on the third level.
Most philosophers tend to say that only one of these three levels are real and-or valuable and thus they have to chose between the types of individualism. For me all three are valuable.
If I am interested in self-location believes, I mostly think about them using the third level,