>>13368439This video is retarded and shows the deficiencies of physicalism. Even if physical processes are how consciousness works on the most material level, it has nothing to do with how humans actually experience life. Everyone thinks of themselves as an "I" which is based on the conscious and unconscious idea of themselves, the passions and desires and feelings that constitute "I". even if you transplant the part of the brain that contains memories to another brain as he says, this notion of "I", that cannot be grasped empirically, will still exist.
This is because the idea that I have of myself, my "I", is a polarity, that is at once permanent and changeable. I am I, but I am also the world - my "I" begins passively with experience, my environment and the experiences I am exposed to, before it becomes active in the shape of my own personal identity as I figure out how I feel about certain things and what I want out of life. The "I" becomes, through the malleability and curiosity of youth, to something definite by adulthood. The "I" becomes fully formulated constituted by another polarity - what is "I" and what is not "I". This is personal identity, I am because I am, or I am because I am not. I am me, I am not he. Upon reaching maturity humans approach the world in a way that makes their approach uniquely and permanently "them", but even then their permanent "I" may still be susceptible to change depending on life experience. Ultimately closed versus open individualism is a false dichotomy, for it is both at once. I am I and the world.
Of course all this is blind to to the physicalist who thinks of humans like a machine that consists of inputs and outputs, wants to remove the human element of what makes us human, no wonder he killed himself.
