If you want to know why

BillyMc
Thu, 26 May 2011 20:33:13 +0000

Yes I agree. Different DNA (or in fact the same DNA, but a different cell) would yield a different brain and consciousness.

Still, I think it’s quite possible I (or you) could have been born some other time. I mean how are we assigned to the brains we are (why do we perceive from the brains we do?). This is an open question; it can’t be dodged by saying - well, you are that person, and therefore couldn’t be anyone else. I think one can ask why you are that person without contradicting what we are agreeing to above (that consciousness is tied the brain, that each brain is the consciousness). So I don’t think what you brought up impacts what I mentioned here:

We aren’t “assigned” to our brains, our consciousness arises naturally from them, no?