It seems to me that this is an attempt to sit on two chairs at once. On the one hand, you assume that there are some discrete moments of our experience. But what could such a moment be equal to? It is unlikely to be equal to Planck’s time. This means that you assume that different chronoquanta of the brain’s existence are connected into one “moment of experience”. You postulate the existence of “granules of qualia” that have internal integrity and temporal extension. On the other hand, you assume that these “granules of qualia” are separated from each other and are not connected into a single whole. Why? The first and second are weakly connected to each other. If you believe that there is a mysterious “temporal mental glue” that connects Planck’s moments of the brain’s existence into “granules of qualia” the length of a split second, then it is logical to assume that the “granules of qualia” in turn are connected by this glue into a single stream of consciousness. No? Sorry, I feel a little like a bitter cynic and a religious fundamentalist. It seems to me that behind this kind of reasoning there often lies an unconscious desire to maintain faith in the possibility of “mind uploading” or similar operations. If our life is not a single stream, then mind uploading would be much easier to implement. That is why many modern intellectuals prefer such theories. You can say that the connection of “granules of qualia” into a single stream of the observer’s existence does not make evolutionary sense. This is true. But the connection of individual Planck moments of the brain’s existence into “granules of qualia” also does not make evolutionary sense. If you assume that the first is somehow an illusion, then you can assume the same about the second.
It seems to me that this is an attempt to sit on two chairs at once.
On the one hand, you assume that there are some discrete moments of our experience. But what could such a moment be equal to? It is unlikely to be equal to Planck’s time. This means that you assume that different chronoquanta of the brain’s existence are connected into one “moment of experience”. You postulate the existence of “granules of qualia” that have internal integrity and temporal extension.
On the other hand, you assume that these “granules of qualia” are separated from each other and are not connected into a single whole.
Why?
The first and second are weakly connected to each other.
If you believe that there is a mysterious “temporal mental glue” that connects Planck’s moments of the brain’s existence into “granules of qualia” the length of a split second, then it is logical to assume that the “granules of qualia” in turn are connected by this glue into a single stream of consciousness.
No?
Sorry, I feel a little like a bitter cynic and a religious fundamentalist. It seems to me that behind this kind of reasoning there often lies an unconscious desire to maintain faith in the possibility of “mind uploading” or similar operations. If our life is not a single stream, then mind uploading would be much easier to implement. That is why many modern intellectuals prefer such theories.
You can say that the connection of “granules of qualia” into a single stream of the observer’s existence does not make evolutionary sense. This is true. But the connection of individual Planck moments of the brain’s existence into “granules of qualia” also does not make evolutionary sense. If you assume that the first is somehow an illusion, then you can assume the same about the second.