From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Nov 02 2002 - 12:56:20 MST
Lee Corbin wrote;
> Perhaps because the identity paradox has become second nature to me
I see no identity paradox. I see only your false concept of identity. You
wrongly perceive identity as something static in need of what you call
"survival."
But non-nominal identity (personality/self) is not static. It is dynamic,
always in flux. It does not survive from moment to moment in this present
non-forking world, and it will certainly not be in need of survival in a
futuristic forking world. If you would only understand this simple truth
then I'm sure all the paradoxes you perceive would go away.
Consider for a moment that your personal experience of life is like a movie.
Your life proceeds moment by moment like a movie proceeds frame by frame.
The person you call "you" is a different person in each successive frame of
the movie. You believe your identity is a fixed object that persists from
frame to frame for the essentially the same reason you believe the images of
people in an actual Hollywood movie persist from frame to frame -- it is an
artifact of human intelligence that we see continuity in similar but
different objects.
-gts
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