Re: IDENTITY- What it means to be 'me'

From: Max More (max@maxmore.com)
Date: Sun Dec 02 2001 - 13:00:37 MST


At 10:27 AM 12/2/01, you wrote:

> > I will survive into the future
> > even if I forget everything about Max-2001... just so long as Max-2001
> > leads to Max-2002 and so on, in the appropriate way. Max-2001 is a
> > person-stage rather than a person.
>
>Unfortunately, if you permanently forget everything about Max-2001, you'll
>have a great deal of difficulty staying out of a mental hospital. I don't
>think the authorities recognize "person-stages."

I think I may have left this unclear. Certainly I think it would be a major
problem if Max-2002 could not remember anything about Max-2001. When I
mentioned forgetting everything not mattering I was thinking of much longer
intervals of time -- decades. I realize this wasn't clear from the passage
above.

Max

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Strategic Philosopher
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