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Author: dragonslip

Aug 30th 2012 at 3:58:20 PM

rodneyAnonymous

""does not assume": Yes, the description says it's impossible because you can't put an old brain in a young body. That is like saying space flight is impossible because you can't jump to the moon."

Fair enough, I see where I went wrong now
 
""I'm not altogether sure what 'existential' means": I linked to a dictionary above. It means, basically, "regarding existence". Discussions about philosophy of mind are frequently dubbed "existential""
I'm confused, isn't everything regarding existence?

"essence of your being": There is no evidence at all that such a thing exists. In many ways that is a formal fallacy , actually. Keep in mind that wiki articles are not "by" anyone: It is fine for you personally to believe souls (or whatever) exist in real life, but it's weird (at best) for TV Tropes to assert that they do.

Just don't make claims about how real life is. That's all. You could describe the plot of Freaky Friday without making any reference to how brains actually work, or making any neurobiologists squirm"

I wasn't trying to make any claims about the sole. I was trying (poorly) to say that if you change as result of chemicals thorough out your life then your potential changes as well and effort is less important because there's no point in trying to be more adult when you're say....15 if your simply not capable

P.S Dragonslip is my (me being  frogswim) laptop's account because I couldn't figure out how to open the same account on two machines