OUTLINE.IDt

file outline.ID.T 12:02 pm Nov 4, 1994/2:30 pm Jan 2, 1993

A brain can produce many mentapaths. It can produce one mentapath at a time but it can produce many simimentapaths at a time. Ones brains mentapath is another brains simimentapath. Simimentapaths can correspond to personality traits, memories etc. Two different brains can produce simiawarepaths that are closely identical or identical. Why is the proof of this? There are different proofs for this. We can have deductive proofs based on the definitions and we can have experimental proofs. If two brains can be identical why can they not be partially identical? This is different from the view that brains can approximate the paths of other paths or the continuum hypothesis. (the physipath determines the type of continuum there may be many different types of physipaths so the continuum that can be produced maybe very smooth) This concept is that one brain can be the same is some ways and radically different in others. this is call the principle of simimentapaths It states that many mentapaths can be broken into disjointed parts. The lengths of these parts can have different lifetimes or path lengths before they merge into another simimentpath. It would seem that the simimentapaths are always merging into other simimentapaths. This would be like the ideas that all mentapaths are merging into another mentapath. What causes the merge is the sensepath. The proof of this would be if there is change in the mentapath then it is going through another mentapath or has merged into another mentapath. Any mentapath is only a part of an infinite amount of other longer mentapaths. In the same way that any line segment is only a segment of many possible longer line segments. A mentapath can be broken down into parts that are not totally dependent on the other parts. A physipath can be broken down into parts that are not totally dependent on the other parts. For instance there are two parts of the brain that are connected but are not dependent on each other for consciousness. Brain experiments show that when parts of the brain are destroyed different types of consciousness or mental ability is destroyed or impaired. This is not always the case so there is some overlap in function within the brain . What does this mean? changes to the brain can cause changes to the mind and mentapath. Small changes in the brain can cause small changes to the mind. If we modify the brain we can modify the mind and the mentapath. Changes to the brain can occur in several ways. one way is through the senses. Another way is by the physical manipulation of the brain. The human brain is not modified easily except by way of the senses. But other brain types structures could be made that could be modified by ways other than through the senses. The human brain can be modified by surgery and possibly by fields of energy The point of the argument is that two different people could have the exact same simimentapaths. This is common sense to some people because they believe that they can know what another person experienced through what they themselves have experienced. There really is nothing new in the identity theory that we don’t already believe. We already believe that we can feel what other feel and not what some feel we are versions of ourselves.

The brain does not have to produce mentapaths or awarepaths that are connected to reality. A person can have a real experience that is not real it can be exactly the same as if the experience in fact did happen. This explains why people can believe something that is not real based on an experience that was real and exactly the same as if the situation did happen.

Outline of ideas

Define the identity theory

Introduce the concepts of mentapaths awarepaths

	 physipaths

neuropaths simipaths

Explain the reduction theory

Explain the continuum hypothesis

Consequences of the identity theory