Experiments with originals

File experiments with originals 12:52 pm Saturday, September 28 2002

We can ask the question do you experience it or does some one else? This is the question to ask in determining is some one is you or not. This question is poorly defined in the sense that we have to know what the original or I is to know if he-- I experiences it. This is however the real question for survival of death and immortality. For any two individuals the question is do I experience what the other individual experiences? The answer is no because if I were experiencing what he is, I would be seeing what he is seeing, feeling what he is feeling, having the memories he is having now etc. . The only one that fits this scenario is some one that is experiencing what you are experiencing exactly. But this is not enough because some one else could be experiencing exactly what you are experiencing right now and not be you. Scientifically, we can consider time to be a dimension so we can look back or forward in time and look at the original or you at different stages in its or your life. This previous or future you is defined as you but they are not experiencing what you are experiencing so how can they be you? Either they are not you which means that you did not exist in the past and the future only for moments in the presents. This leads to many problems. Such as we have no future. We have not past. We exist only for a moment in the present. If not us then who is this past or future person and if the moment is all we are ourselves then there must be many different individuals that inhabit our bodies over time. This is certainly counter to what we think and believe. So we are back to the original thesis that the future us and past us are really us so what is the unifying principle in our future selves and our past selves? It is that you experience it. This leads to the problem of defining what you is. Of course you are changing over time so you have to be defined as more than just a point, you are not just what is but potential consciousness as well and potential consciousness corresponds to potential functioning and structure. There is thus more than one point of structure and functioning that produces your consciousness.

The concept of the ixperiencit is the key to experiments with originals