In my disambiguations of the really mysterious aspect of consciousness (indexical prior), I haven’t found any support for a concept of continuity. (you could say that continuity over time is likely given that causal entanglement seems to have something to do with the domain of the indexical prior, but I’m not sure we really have a reason to think we can ever observe anything about the indexical prior)
It’s just part of the human survival drive, it has very little to do with the metaphysics of consciousness. To understand the extent to which humans really care about it, you need to know human desires in a direct and holistic way that we don’t really practice here. Human desire is a big messy state machine that changes shape as a person grows. Some of the changes that the desires permit and encourage include situationally appropriate gradual reductions in complexity.
A continuity minder doesn’t need to define their self in terms of any particular quality, they define themselves as continuity with a history of small alterations. They are completely unbothered by the paradox of the ship of theseus.
It’s rare that I meet a continuity minder and cataclysmic identity change accepter who is also a patternist. But they do exist.
But I’ve met plenty of people who do not fear cataclysmic change. I sometimes wonder if we’re all that way, really. Most of us just never have the opportunity to gradually transition into a hedonium blob, so I think we don’t really know whether we’d do it or not. The road to the blob nature may turn out to be paved with acceptable changes.
In my disambiguations of the really mysterious aspect of consciousness (indexical prior), I haven’t found any support for a concept of continuity. (you could say that continuity over time is likely given that causal entanglement seems to have something to do with the domain of the indexical prior, but I’m not sure we really have a reason to think we can ever observe anything about the indexical prior)
It’s just part of the human survival drive, it has very little to do with the metaphysics of consciousness. To understand the extent to which humans really care about it, you need to know human desires in a direct and holistic way that we don’t really practice here. Human desire is a big messy state machine that changes shape as a person grows. Some of the changes that the desires permit and encourage include situationally appropriate gradual reductions in complexity.
A continuity minder doesn’t need to define their self in terms of any particular quality, they define themselves as continuity with a history of small alterations. They are completely unbothered by the paradox of the ship of theseus.
It’s rare that I meet a continuity minder and cataclysmic identity change accepter who is also a patternist. But they do exist.
But I’ve met plenty of people who do not fear cataclysmic change. I sometimes wonder if we’re all that way, really. Most of us just never have the opportunity to gradually transition into a hedonium blob, so I think we don’t really know whether we’d do it or not. The road to the blob nature may turn out to be paved with acceptable changes.