Software & Hardware
These terms are borrowed from computer jargon. For
simplicity, hardware would be like a piano ready to be
played and software would be like the particular tunes that could be played during each setting.
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States That Represent Something
The keys present on the piano are sufficient to play about
any tune. They need the fingers to hit them in a meaningful way (they need to be programed). The music moves along in
measures and each could be considered like a frame on a
roll of film running through a projector. |
Nothing Needed But the Keys
A state is
attained when a tune is played efficiently. A state that
can only be had with the keys present on the keyboard. In
this way the music coming from the piano represent -'internal changes-' happening to the piano. |
Nature and nuture
How much are we born with and how much can we change by
learning things during our liftimes? Each nerve cell
changes shape and conductivity when stimulated but how much can they be changed? Are we really free? |
Nature and Nuture at the Same Time
It is a mixed economy, of course, with determined cell
shape etc... and culture's ability to influence their
growth, both having a limit to how much change can take
place within these cells. |
Differences of Degrees and Kinds
Within the realm of nature and nuture there is a pool of
different types of experiences that can be had. We are
different to some degree but we are still all the
same kind. The variability is simply the set of
personalities that can exist and they all form from the
influnces of perception and cognition. |
How Many Posibilities Are There?
The only real difference between us is our location
within these possible, but limited, number of possible
personalities. FINITE SET, it has a limited
number of possibilities, even if the niumber of those
possibilities is very large. |
Simular organs:
We can talk about how different our fingerprints or facial
features are but their is a degree of similarity. They are
recognized as either fingers or faces. |
Similar Sense of Being:
We cannot be that different, since we pretty much eat the
same foods, attend to simullar bodily needs, and recieve the same kind of medical attention. Most things that we can do other's can also do and their description of these events will not be that different from our own description. |
Same self with different memories:
We wonder what it is like to be another when in reality we
are wondering what it would be like to have the same
memories as the other. If the only difference between us,
in reality, are our experiences and memories of experiences, then how different are we. Could we be considered all the same self looking at the world from different positions and memories of these positions? |
Rearange Your Nerve Cells
If I rearanged your nerve cells like mine would you not
only have the same memories as me but the same sense of
being? Which parts of the brain am I? The parts of the brain that recognize that I am existing right now or those parts of the brain that are actually causing me to exist right now? |
All Same Self With Different Memories
Each of us the same self but with different memories.
Each person's unique sense of self may arise from the rearrangement of nerve cells during hers or his past experiences. |
Self Awareness Taking Over Everything
Our memories playing on this basic self give the illussion of possession of this self. We think it is us. We take this self and act like we are the only one who has it.
We delude ourselves into thinking that the parts of the brain that perform this absurd phenomenon (doing the thinking above) are not the same cells that are producing the actual phenomenon. |
Difference Between Us
We are trained from youth on to consider the events that we live through as somehow giving us a different shape and
personaluty than others around us. If the only difference
between me and you is a few genetic variations and a
different arrangement of nerve cells, fron memory formation
of different events, then it is not proper to say that we
are that different. |
The Human Gene Pool and other pools
Each species has a gene pool and variations within it
are considered as the same species. If all the human types
in our gene pool were mapped out and understood, would we
still think that these differences are so great? Again we
are participants in a Finite Set of possibilities and
therefore, given enough time, we could figure out how many
types there are within the human Gene Pool.
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