How do I know past-me is the same as now me.

[Endangered-EGO]

How do I know that it's still the same me?

What if Consciousness was switched and memories were added so that there's consciousness with beliefs about a past?

What would be the difference?

To be contemplated.

[Mason Riggle]

If there were a button, that when pressed, I became you and you became me, from your perspective or mine, pressing the button does nothing. 

[Tyler Durden]

@Endangered-EGO 'Past you' only exists in your imagination. 'Now you' is all there is.

[Mason Riggle]

21 minutes ago, Tyler Durden said:

@Endangered-EGO 'Past you' only exists in your imagination. 'Now you' is all there is.

And 'you' are everything there is. 

[Nahm]

Nothing would be different.

[Endangered-EGO]

On 05/10/2021 at 1:20 AM, Mason Riggle said:

If there were a button, that when pressed, I became you and you became me, from your perspective or mine, pressing the button does nothing. 

@Mason Riggle That's fascinating right?

[Mason Riggle]

@Endangered-EGO I find it fascinating.. and rather telling.   If you were me, you'd have no choice but to behave like me, because you would be me.  This also means that I have no choice but to behave like myself.   I could only do 'other than what I am doing' if I was someone other than who I am, which I never am.  If I'm not free to 'be other than how I am being in any moment'.. then I'm not free to 'do other than what I'm doing in any moment'.  

'The self' is something that is happening (not a thing exists independently and 'does things').. like anything else, but really there is no distinct 'self'.. there is just the process of 'being', which everything is doing, 1 big process.. and then we make arbitrary distinctions and say 'this is doing that', which is how we fool ourselves.  That tree is growing leaves. Well is it really?  Is there really a 'tree' which 'grows leaves'. Well no, not really.. the 'tree' is a collection of processes which includes 'growing leaves'.

There really is no consistent distinct 'you' which exists.. there is just the process of 'being you' which is occurring as part of a larger process.  Consider.. If I have a car, and I slowly replace each part of the car with parts from a catalogue.. at what point does the car stop being 'the original car'?  Well, there really is no distinct 'car'.. there is a collection of parts and processes which we call a car.. that's the only part that remains consistent.. our notion of what a 'car' is.  The 'car' I drive home today will not be the same 'car' I drove to work.. some paint has chipped off, some metal in the engine wore away.. it has changed from what it was.  

[Endangered-EGO]

@Mason Riggle You don't even need to go that far, you can just say:"switching wouldn't switch the memories of before the switch" or would it?

[VeganAwake]

ME is like a web of memories and conditioned patterns of thinking and feeling. 

If ME lost all its memories, who would it be?