X-Message-Number: 25089
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:46:18 -0800
Subject: Mike Perry's View of the Soul
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Dear Mike,

I well understand your view of the soul, as a pattern. However, 
this viewpoint suffers from the many problems I have brought up:

1. A pattern cannot experience anything. Fundamentally, we are 
experiencers of a subjective inner-life---of this thing we call 
consciousness. Since a pattern cannot have this property, we cannot 
fundamentally be a pattern.

2. A pattern has no objectiven existence. Your brain pattern is 
encoded into a rock and many other things in this universe, 
according to various interpretive schemes. Therefore, you would say 
you are 'instantiated' in numerous places in the universe. This is 
not meaningful---when you die, there will be no expereience of 
anything for you. The fact that your brain pattern is encoded into 
a rock according to some scheme won't mean you survive your death.

Best Regards,

Richard B. R.

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