At 6/16/09 09:44 PM, s0-Dumb wrote:
So, what are your thoughts concerning this new revelation!?
That it's not new since you insist on making and re-making these threads over and over and over. Enough already!
This is at least the fourth time (not including random posts in other threads and extra ones that may have been deleted) I've seen this same uninteresting sub-rhetorical drivel with your name at the top of it.
Can you remember your previous conciousness? No. Theorising that you'll get 'another' one is stupid, because (consciousness or not) your memory (and everything based on it i.e. personality, standpoints, experiences) is not a possibility, and won't be taken with you in the same manner. Ergo: a recycled conciousness w/o memory, and therefore destined to be different to (and completely ignorant of) its former self, is essentially no different to a new conciousness.
Even on the ever-so-slim chance that this is actually right, and conciousnesses are indeed eternal, if you can only remember one lifetime at a time, what does it matter?
There's also the small point that applying mathematical formulae to abstract concepts such as 'conciousness' doesn't work. Go look at the number of times people have tried using it to 'disprove' the existence of god, for example.
Don't even know why I'm arguing with this crap, but meh.