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[[Consciousness]] is often conflated with [[Identity Continuity]]. Considering the river as Heraclitus did, the contents of the river is continuously replaced, as are the cells in your own body. Yet we are comfortable saying yesterday as well as continuing into the present that this is the same [[Entity]] today as it was yesterday. | [[Consciousness]] is often conflated with [[Identity Continuity]]. Considering the river as Heraclitus did, the contents of the river is continuously replaced, as are the cells in your own body. Yet we are comfortable saying yesterday as well as continuing into the present that this is the same [[Entity]] today as it was yesterday. | ||
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Yet people die and rivers dry up. But the memory of them may well live on indefinitely. | Yet people die and rivers dry up. But the memory of them may well live on indefinitely. | ||
Revision as of 14:26, 4 June 2024
Full Title or Meme
Consciousness is often conflated with Identity Continuity. Considering the river as Heraclitus did, the contents of the river is continuously replaced, as are the cells in your own body. Yet we are comfortable saying yesterday as well as continuing into the present that this is the same Entity today as it was yesterday.
"Everything changes and nothing remains. ... you cannot step twice into the same stream".[1]
Yet people die and rivers dry up. But the memory of them may well live on indefinitely.
Process Philosophy
Process Philosophy deals with the concepts of change or "of becoming" rather than with the essential, or unchanging, part of an Identity as emphasized by Plato. This concept traveled by way of Whitehead[2] into the view of Heisenberg in his Quantum Mechanics of the observable of an Entity which, we know today, might be as small as an electron or as large as a Buckyball of Carbon atoms.
