Mini-Feature: If Your Memory was Wiped, what Would You Be?
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If all your memories were erased, what kind of person would you be? This question hits at the heart of what we are. Lurking underneath it is whether or not we purely material, and if so is our "kind of person" something we could to some degree in principle switch out and update like software? Erase our memory, erase our person? Or is there a deeper question here: without memory, can we function at all? It seems apparent that a very young child begins to ascertain universals via some form of memory as they sense the world around them. If
Mini-Feature: If Your Memory was Wiped, what Would You Be?
Mini-Feature: If Your Memory was Wiped, what…
Mini-Feature: If Your Memory was Wiped, what Would You Be?
If all your memories were erased, what kind of person would you be? This question hits at the heart of what we are. Lurking underneath it is whether or not we purely material, and if so is our "kind of person" something we could to some degree in principle switch out and update like software? Erase our memory, erase our person? Or is there a deeper question here: without memory, can we function at all? It seems apparent that a very young child begins to ascertain universals via some form of memory as they sense the world around them. If