I’m not just saying that it’s unknown, I’m saying that it’s subjective what bits are important! You can’t define importance objectively, so we need to either rework or throw away patternism.
Oh, cool—yes, that’s an incredibly important insight. At this level, “identity” is not only not a binary choice, it’s not even consistent. Identity-for-purpose, with the result being a distance from 0 to 1, is the way we should think of it. Identity for legal purposes can use different distance functions than identity for dating, or for trust in factual claims.
I think that’s orthogonal to patternism (unless i misunderstand—is it not just another word for physicalism?)
Oh, cool—yes, that’s an incredibly important insight. At this level, “identity” is not only not a binary choice, it’s not even consistent. Identity-for-purpose, with the result being a distance from 0 to 1, is the way we should think of it. Identity for legal purposes can use different distance functions than identity for dating, or for trust in factual claims.
I think that’s orthogonal to patternism (unless i misunderstand—is it not just another word for physicalism?)