Unscientific phil theory 1
File name -- unscientific phil theory File created date -- 3 am Tuesday, March 17 2004
Why other theories of personal identity are not scientific.
There are two philosophical theories of personal identity the physical and psychological. The physical is that the personal identity is based on the physical body and the matter that it is made of over time. The process of assimilation is not scientific unless we make this process a matter of getting the correct structure and functioning.
The psychological theory is that the necessary part of personal identity is connectedness and continuity of mentality with the causal theory of experience. This it that the experience have to actually come for the experiences or caused by
The physical view has the concept of assimilation of matter to make it you it Matter is being exchanged in the body all the time with matter out side of the body In this theory there has to be a continuation of some core psychology that is carried forward also. In this case there is a body that actually experience events that cause the memories and experiences
In the psychological view there is the connectedness and continuity of the psychology. You have to be connected to the past sates of mind and they have to be connected and the experiences have to have casual effect on the individual through some sequence of event, there is no abrupt change in the consciousness over time
The casual theory is not scientific because it does not deal with other causes producing the same effect on the brain structure and functioning. There are many ways to get the brain to functioning in a certain way. It does not have to be the one that the person thinks made the memory. If it is the specific pathway that causes an experience to produce a memory there has to be how that specific experience and only that specific experience produced that effect with out an effect on the brain example image the two situations where the brain is effected by previous causes but the causes are different but the effect on the brain is the same. If the first case produces a memory the second according to the psychology approach will not be the same as the first
Religious theories or immortality and survival of death are based on wishful thinking. The concept of a soul is a created concept to allow there to be a means of survival. -- if the body is destroyed how can there be survival if there is not some other aspect. It has to carry individuality because our consciousness seems to be individual. A soul could do this.
The concept of reincarnation is a cyclic concept but where is there proof that there are cycles. What is the means of creating these cycles of consciousness. Each cycle of consciousness has no direct understanding of any past consciousness but the ixperiencit concept fits this possibility but the identireplicas theory does not say that nature creates levels to punish people for what they have done.