Armok_GoB comments on Bad Concepts Repository - Less Wrong

20 Post author: moridinamael 27 June 2013 03:16AM

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Comment author: Armok_GoB 02 July 2013 11:16:30PM 1 point [-]

@episodic memories: I don't personally have any like that, but I hear many people do consider the subjective experience of pivotal events in their life as part of who they are.

@relationships: I'm talking the literal membership here, the thing that exists as a function of the entanglement between states in different brains.

To clarify, I'm not talking about "your identity" here as in the information about what you consider your identity, but rather the referent of that identity. To many people, their physical bodies are part of their identity in this sense. Even distant objects, or large organizations like nations, can be in extreme cases. Just because it's a trend here to only have information that resides in your own brain as part of your identity doesn't mean it's necessary, or even especially common in it's pre form in most places.

Comment author: tondwalkar 03 July 2013 12:44:50PM 2 points [-]

To clarify, I'm not talking about "your identity" here as in the information about what you consider your identity, but rather the referent of that identity.

Ah, it appears we're talking about different things. I'm referring to ideological identity ("I'm a rationalist" , "I'm a libertarian", "I'm pro-choice", "I'm an activist" ), which I think is distinct from "I'm my mind" identity. In particular, you can be primed psychologically and emotionally by the former more than the latter.

Comment author: Armok_GoB 03 July 2013 03:12:32PM 1 point [-]

It seems like we both, and possibly the original Keeping Your Identity Small article, are committing the typical mind fallacy.