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Re:“The Nothingness of Personality” by Jorge Luis Borges by argentinian on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:52PM (#33665867)
> we are a cloud of experiences and thoughts and emotions that happens to take one configuration or another based on external "measurements".

> There is no thought or emotion I can have right now that...

I'm confused now. ARE you thoughts and emotions, or do you HAVE thougths and emotions?

> If I strip away the emotions, the thoughts, the perceptions, all I have is a functionless mirror.

Have you done that to be able to reach that conclussion, or is that speculation?

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Re:“The Nothingness of Personality” by Jorge Luis Borges by Sakos on Saturday November 19, 2022 @10:14AM (#33670830)
> Have you done that to be able to reach that conclussion, or is that speculation?

It's based on the rest of what I said and by extension my current understanding of cognition and neurobiology.

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Re:“The Nothingness of Personality” by Jorge Luis Borges by argentinian on Saturday November 19, 2022 @07:11PM (#33676537)
What is your current understanding about awareness? Can it be like what you call the 'functionless mirror'? What place do you assign to awareness in that equation?

I mean, the layering and modifications of thoughts, emotions and perceptions, may occur without awareness, as the functioning of a machine.

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