• Nouvellalia@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    Those filters were created by your environment too. “You” are simply the experiencer, a vortex in the sensory feed.

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      6 hours ago

      Ultimately sure, but it’s partially (epi)genetic at least so not just your own experiences, but derived from all that has come before. You’re not some pure, objective observer in the sense of some kind of non-identity I don’t think.

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        6 hours ago

        That epigenetic information was created by your environment.

        So you believe that if I ship-of-theseus your body, you would no longer be you?

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          5 hours ago

          Ultimately yes, I don’t adhere to an essentialist view of identity though, identity is just a unique arrangement of matter.

          Which also means that a ship-of-Theseus doesn’t maintain its identity, yes. Even more, I personally don’t think identity is anything but a consistent narrative and there’s no material identity. One doesn’t need to rearrange anything but just wait a bit and your body is no longer the body it was a second ago :)