Posted by Dinah on August 18, 2005, at 9:33:48
In reply to Re: I » Dinah, posted by alexandra_k on August 17, 2005, at 22:56:21
I like that theory, and I sort of wish it applied to me. For me, I am less like I was yesterday than I am like I was the last time I felt this way.
State dependent memory, sense of identity, etc. seems to be a better fit for me. So that the Dinah today may be the Dinah +1, but the +1 unit of time isn't measured in strict linear time. It is more like it picks up from the last time I felt this exact way. My thoughts, daydreams, and philosophy pick up as if they had never stopped. From the last time I felt this way. But tomorrow they may well have started over again, or not over again, but one day further from the last time I felt *that* way, which may be a completely different starting point than yesterday.
If that makes any sense.
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