Personal identity

There is personal identity when there is the continuation of the same body over time. There are many rational experiments that cause problems in having a coherent theory of personal identity when it is tied to consciousness and ixperiencitness. A person theoretically can continue to exist for a very long time period. During this time period many small changes can occur to the structure and functioning of the body. Eventually the physipath of another person could emerge producing the awarepath of another person. He will have the memories of another person. He will call himself by another name, And when you say that, in fact, he is another person that has existed before him, he will deny it. Yet he has had a continuous body, a continuous consciousness except for sleep and the like. He would be considered the same person by most personal identity theorists. And they would be right! It is the same person but this person has a different consciousness and a different ixperiencitness. Personal identity cannot be used as a coherent determiner of life after death, conscious survival through time , or immortality. What is needed is the concept of ixperiencitness identity based on the concept of structure and functioning of matter of a body, not the matter used, place nor time that the body exists in.

Problems with the continuous and continuity of matter and consciousness determining the same person over time.

There is the internal and external view of the continuous and continuity of matter and consciousness over time. They can be broken down into eight separate categories these categories are:

External view of the continuity of consciousness of a person. This is from an external view point of the amount of conscious change from time period to time period.

Internal view of the continuity of consciousness of a person. This is from an internal view point of the amount of conscious change from time period to time period.

External view of the continuousness of consciousness of a person. This is from an external view point of the number and length of interruptions in the continuousness of consciousness.

Internal view of the continuousness of consciousness of a person. This is from an internal view point of the number and length of interruptions in the continuousness of consciousness.

External view of the continuity of body of a person. This is from an external view point of the amount of physical change from time period to time period.

Internal view of the continuity of body of a person. This is from an internal view point of the amount of physical change from time period to time period.

External view of the continuousness of body of a person. This is from an external view point of the amount of physical discontinuousness from time period to time period.

Internal view of the continuousness of body of a person. This is from an external view point of the amount of physical discontinuousness from time period to time period.

The external view point can be more accurate than the internal view point but the external view point will not necessarily see the consciousness and ixperiencitness that is produced by the body. The external view point is still based on one or more consciousnesses producing this view point. But by definition we can exclude the consciousness aspect and proclaim that the external view point represent what really has or is happening.

The internal view point is restricted by the consciousness that is being produced. The consciousness that is produced by the body may think or believe certain things about itself as a body and consciousness, that can be from a accurate external viewpoint (or reality), completely different or false.

The external view point can take many different perspectives. It can be accurate in what it views or it can be distorted by many different factors like the how the brain of the observer or observers functions. The observer can have different sensepaths dealing with the observed person that will influence the awarepath produced by the observer. the observer can observe the external behavior of the observed person. The observer can gain information about the internal functioning of the observed person. Awaretheory predicts that the observer can also see in many different ways the consciousness that is being produced by the by the observed person. Awaretheory predicts that there are many different ways to look into the consciousness of the observed person without effecting the functioning of the observed person. One way is by studying the consciousness of videntireplicas of the observed person that have the ability to actually sense what the original observed person experiences. This sensing can be done in many ways with many different but not contradictory results.

see also Structural and functional representations Structural and functional representations of objects Dualism, materialism, and awaretheory