″ ” Mathew C: “And the biggest threat, of course, is the truth that the self is not fundamentally real. When that is clearly seen, the gig is up.”
Spot on. That is by far the biggest impasse I have faced anytime I try to convey a meta-ethics denying the very existence of the “singularity of self” in favor of the self of agency over increasing context. I usually to downplay this aspect until after someone has expressed a practical level of interest, but it’s right there out front for those who can see it. ”
I think you are misinterpreting things here. I would call it a false dichotomy.”
What I mean is, just because there is no “ontological” self doesn’t mean there isn’t a really complex “self-like” process that is highly dependent on, correlated with, and based in a single, individual brain—a process that simply is not isomorphic to a group of such processes, especially with respect to the Singularity.
″ ” Mathew C: “And the biggest threat, of course, is the truth that the self is not fundamentally real. When that is clearly seen, the gig is up.”
Spot on. That is by far the biggest impasse I have faced anytime I try to convey a meta-ethics denying the very existence of the “singularity of self” in favor of the self of agency over increasing context. I usually to downplay this aspect until after someone has expressed a practical level of interest, but it’s right there out front for those who can see it. ”
I think you are misinterpreting things here. I would call it a false dichotomy.”
What I mean is, just because there is no “ontological” self doesn’t mean there isn’t a really complex “self-like” process that is highly dependent on, correlated with, and based in a single, individual brain—a process that simply is not isomorphic to a group of such processes, especially with respect to the Singularity.