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Fusion
(Text as at 26/11/2007 23:25:26)
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We need to consider the merger of the two psychologies1: Parfit thinks we might like to inherit some of the better characteristics of our partner, as in a marriage – but the creation of a single consciousness2 from two seems difficult to conceive of (much more so than the creation of two consciousnesses from one, as in fission3). Do we end up with a single first-person perspective4, or with two? This needs to be related to multiple personality disorder5. Also, consider Parfit’s6 seasonal people that alternately fission and fuse. How conceivable are these thought experiments7?
We also need to consider physical as well as psychological fusions, as in the case of the dicephalus8 and brain transplants9.
Live Version of this Archived Note
| Date |
Length |
Title |
| 06/07/2023 00:43:12 |
3720 |
Fusion |
Earlier Version of this Note
| Date |
Length |
Title |
| 12/08/2007 10:17:46 |
658 |
Fusion |
Table of the 7 Later Versions of this Note
| Date |
Length |
Title |
| 20/09/2022 11:24:00 |
3509 |
Fusion |
| 15/05/2022 13:19:12 |
3182 |
Fusion |
| 01/10/2021 13:17:46 |
2990 |
Fusion |
| 12/02/2021 15:44:38 |
2145 |
Fusion |
| 25/09/2020 20:15:22 |
1734 |
Fusion |
| 15/02/2018 22:00:29 |
2934 |
Fusion |
| 18/12/2010 19:58:05 |
859 |
Fusion |
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