>>14357513> One can't really wager much further until we solve the mind-matter dichotomy.Though the idea of reincarnation is sort of by attaching the capacity of experiencing qualia to matter, as opposed to the emergence of matter. And as I said, I don't think that's the case, though maybe the same matter experiencing another emergence would also have qualia. But beyond that, that is to say beyond that emergence, it's really hard to say. Case in point are the teleporter, replication, cloning mind experiments for the mind. It's a hotly debated topic of philosophy, as it has been for millenia. The fact if you split parts of the brain they can function as independent units complicates it even further.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brainI used to be a panpsychist that attributed qualia to everything, but that's wrong, as you technically can have qualia OF everything and since it's really, really hard to meditate about not having qualia, but that's just the bias of me being someone with qualia.
We can run a few mind experiments, if you are brain dead for 500 ms and are somehow revived, are you the same person, i.e. is the "continuity of identity of qualia" unaffected? If you rearrange your molecules into another person's brain, what about then? What if all of the matter that makes you up is gradually replaced akin to ship of theseus, is there still a continuation of qualia? What about if it were to be replaced digitally? What if your brain was chopped up to countless smaller pieces that still had neurological activity?
I think another critical observation is the experience of qualia as you have it right now. For some reason you don't experience qualia at the level of a lobe, but the highest level emergence. And yet there are parts of the processing of your brain not consciously readily available to you. And yet you also don't experience qualia at the level of society, family, relationship, only at the level of your own individual brain.Why?All key questions.
