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Tag Archives: identity
What Pretension, Everlasting Peace
My grandfather lived a long life, well into his eighties. In his later years, he was caught in the grip of full-blown Parkinson’s dementia, and doctors suspected Alzheimer’s disease. He didn’t recognize people he had known all his life. He … Continue reading
Parasitic Personality Disorder
You have ten times as many bacterial cells as human ones in your body, and that leaves out viruses and fungi. Are those non-human creatures in your body part of you? It’s easy to think of them as ‘not you’, … Continue reading
I Am a Strange Loop
Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter has long been one of my favorite books. That book tackles what it means to be conscious and how consciousness or meaning could arise out of unconsious and meaningless elements (i.e. physical particles bouncing … Continue reading
False Memories
Do you remember where you were when you first saw the closed-circuit TV footage of the 7/7 London bombings in 2005? Hopefully not, else you may be imagining things — no such footage exists. But if you claimed to remember … Continue reading
In- and Out-of-Body Experience
Normally our bodies receive sensory input through eyes, ears, skin and other systems, and those inputs synch up in consistent ways, such that our brain can put it together into a coherent picture of the 3D world around and including … Continue reading
Last Week’s Potatoes
“So what is this mind of ours: what are these atoms with consciousness? Last week’s potatoes! They now can remember what was going on in my mind a year ago — a mind which has long ago been replaced. To … Continue reading