Toggle menu
Toggle preferences menu
Toggle personal menu
Not logged in
Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits.

What produces ixperiencitness argument

From Aware Theory

Before we ask what produces ixperiencitness we need proof that this concept actually exists. There are several questions that relate to ixperiencitness. Does every conscious being have an ixperiencitness? Is ixperiencitness a specific aspect of consciousness that can be removed or added to it by way of changing the structure and functioning of the brain? It seems that if I experience a consciousness it is me. if I do not experience a consciousness it is not me. But what is the "I" that experiences a consciousness? Some might say that the "I" is the body or on the other extreme that "I" is the personality or consciousness Superimmortality says that the I is the structure and functioning of the body not the body itself. The structure and functioning of a body can be duplicated in many different bodies.

If the "I" is the singular body then only the one body can have the the ixperiencitness even if identical structure and functioning occurs in other bodies.

What is the proof or supporting evidence that you are the structure and functioning of the body and not a specific body. By changing the way the brain is structured and then functions you can produce overwhelming evidence that the same matter in the same body can produce any consciousness, with its corresponding identical self identity, memories, feelings, emotions, behavior, personality, skills, abilities, knowledge, awareness of placement in space and time, belief in the existence and knowledge of the same friends, relatives, acquaintances etc.

What produces ixperiencitness is the same thing as what produces consciousness --- the structure and functioning of the brain. To reproduce the same ixperiencitness you have to duplicate any consciousness that has that particular ixperiencitness. An ixperiencitness is a grouping term for different consciousnesses. The consciousness that you are experiencing now is different from what you will experience in the future or did experience in the past but you likely believe that you did experience these different variations in consciousnesses. Not only this, but you likely believe that at any moment in time if things would have been different you could have experienced many other different things thus your consciousness would have been at least somewhat different. For example, instead of reading this sentence you could have taken a walk in numerous different paths each producing a different consciousness, or watched numerous different shows on TV, or cooked and eaten any number of different meals.