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| The Process One Run Fallacy |
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That a particular happening of a process type is a one time only event and can never be the same process even if replicated at another location with similar but different components. |
FALSE
This self [this "I" (as opposed to a perfect replica of this "I" that would be certain it was "this self")] is dependent upon the running of that process this time only. |
| Various One Run Fallacies. |
| The self depends upon a core set of processes that continue from birth until death even while sleeping. As the brain keeps the heart and lungs functioning during sleep this core self cannot be stopped or that self will be gone forever. |
| The self is identical with this particular "run". If the same self is run at different locations they are different run bound selves and do not share the same awareness of the self. |
| We could all be the same basic self but our runs are different so we each posit an located unique "I". We are each locked into not only our individual consciousnesses but also -un-repeatable- run cycles. |
| Multi-run One Self |
| If the above assertions were correct, a person who was frozen for a period of time, with all brain activities stopped, and then thawed to life, could not be the same person, but would only think that he or she were the same person. |
| Accourding to this "one run" from birth until death theory, a person who was pronounced dead and then revived would not be the same person. This person would only be convinced that he or she were the original person. |
| Accourding to this "one run" theory if all activities in the brain were stopped for only one moment the self after that moment would only be a clone that thought it was the original person. |
| Nerve cells function basically with on-off signals so the location of this one run MUST be at a higher level in the brain.. |
| Consciousness moves through time in groups of frames as in a movie projector and film strip, creating the current moment. But this one run requires no gaps and MUST never stop as the heart can never stop. |
| If frames of consciousness or consequent moments are equal (=) to -other-clones-, who only think they are "the self", then "I" am a set of clones which delude "themselves" into believing that one "I" exists only. |
| Even if we could determine the initial spacial only conditions, for creating one particular moment one has experienced, it may still be impossible to control all of the conditions necessary to re-experience that particular moment, but, once set in motion as a spacio-temporal phenomenon, the self or the "I" could have consequent and further moments. |
| This further set of consequent selves would be as authentic as subsequent multiple selves, even if they believed that they were only one self or "I". In fact it does seem that we can only move along through moments and cannot stop moments or re-experience other past moments completely. |
| If this one run theory is to be correct it MUST be some sort of continuous field produced by discontinuous components. |
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The problem seems to be the equation: This self = this run ONLY. In other words; that this self is identical to this particular run of a process that could be replicated but NEVER have "this run" again, but only other runs and hence other selves that only think they are "that" run. |
| When we think of our past we seem to be the same people that we were. Even if there is a linear descent required for the self to remain somehow related to that younger self, the argument doesn't seem very strong when the discontinuous nature of cells, organs, and consciousness are considered carefully. |
| Could it be that we are continually different selves that think they are the same self? If so the "I" is not identical to "this run". We could acually be a million different people from one day to the next. |
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Other Process Fallacies
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