u/Advanced-Reindeer894

Recently had a convo with someone who thought that continuity in terms of identity is an illusion and that we exist for a fraction of a second while inheriting previous memories. To me that view seems kinda off though I didn't really have a counter argument for it. They gave me supporting cases like:

>In the case of “bodily continuity”, which seems closest to your position, we can ask questions like what if the transporter uses your atoms; literally fires your atoms across space and reforms them into you.
If that’s you again, then why did using the same atoms make a difference? What do those atoms “hold”?
If not, then what is the person at the destination lacking? Bear in mind this would also mean that even with perfect knowledge of the current state of the universe I cannot tell if you are alive or dead because I can only know that by knowing the process by which your atoms arrived at where they are. Which is a whole can of worms in itself.

Or:

>This is another issue with bodily continuity (in fact with most solutions to the transporter problem) – how can we know? If I have a massive seizure that causes my brain waves to stop for several seconds, how can we know whether a person died and a new person was born, or it’s just the continuation of the same consciousness?
Obviously from a practical point of view we tend to assume being qualitatively similar enough means being numerically the same person, but that’s just something for convenience – we can’t know that it’s true.

One solution I think that was given to me is Process Philosophy, seeing us more like dynamic events rather than static objects, which if that is true would seem to negate a lot of the problems about continuity. Though I'll confess, identity is complicated (thinking about it hurts my head) and whether it's psychology, physical, or both, the concept seems to depend on how you define it. But is it an illusion?

Personally I think continuity and identity seem more like intuition like our understanding of what is alive.

They drew some conclusions as well:

>Agree that it’s tricky. As I say, we have a “common-sense” description of what continuity means and how death will be permanent, but it falls apart in all kinds of hypotheticals. We’re faced with just a few implausible or uncomfortable possibilities:

>If the pattern of brain structure = continuity, then it implies we’re all immortal; it’s just a matter of time before some atoms come together into the right configuration, in this universe or another. And, from your perspective, this will have happened instantly.

>We specify that it must be the same atoms. This actually doesn’t help because we could still say that eventually the specific atoms of your brain will come back together in a heat death universe. In fact all we’ve done is add the problem of needing to explain what’s so special about my atoms.

>Just say that continuity is an illusion. You, me, everyone, exist for a fraction of a second only, but have the illusion of continuity by virtue of inheriting memories.

So after running the gauntlet and testing out skills and all that, I like the dual swords. Not just for the look but also the speed and movement they offer, even if they don't hit hard.

But like...are they bad though? Like are they too weak to do everything in the game with? Also side note, what is best armor for them?

I've been trying to beat the bosses but even though I'm max stamina and wearing obsidian divine armor I still can barely scratch them. I'm an axe user and struggling really hard, any help?

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I saw the video and I heard other people mention him saying as such but what does that mean? Does it mean that people don't exist? If that's what it means then I find it odd considering his personal life. Is it saying that the self is an illusion? But what does he mean by illusion though?

I just am often at a loss for words about what I could have done better in a match. Like some times it feels like everything went right and we still lost. Other times it feels like no matter what I do I still lose. I'm mostly a support main because I generally am pretty good at keeping peeps alive but I can't really dps because my aim is pretty bad and I tend to choke a lot in game.

I mostly play moira and merc since those two don't need aim to be good with. I'm pretty good with mercy and learning to triage and when to rez or not but you can't healbot your way up.

It's just frustrating, I don't know what I'm doing wrong or what more I could do.

So far I find it hard to pull away from Reginleif since her healing is so beneficial and having extra builders with Ulfs is pretty nice.

The only other one for me would be Setna for the healing and being able to empower non Egyptian buildings.

Mostly in the sense that a lot of his improvements feel like they belong WAY earlier than mythic. The cost reduction of econ techs and increasing their speed is pretty much useless since at mythic you'd have them already, or most of them.

The fire water (boiling oil) also seems odd for a mythic age god. The other is harvesting faster from herdables but don't those fall off late game?

I guess the dude just feels odd to me.

I was talking to someone about the concept of identity and they brought up Derek Parfit, saying that his view of identity is psychological continuity. They also mentioned that the guy pretty much says that identity doesn't exist and I followed up by saying that would mean that people don't exist since there would be no "one" else. And if there is no "one" else then it would have serious negative effects on society.

They counter that Parfit is optimistic and said that the lack of identity is freeing and leads to more care and concern for others but failed to apply an explanation for HOW that is. I get that it was his argument and idea but could he be drawing bad conclusions from it? Or am I missing something about how it's supposed to be a good thing?

The favor generation is a sore point for me. Namely because if I try to get it in battle it's so small and when I sac the villagers it eventually peters out.

Also I find their heroes kinda weak and needing favor to make them great (when it's already rough to get with them) is an issue. Which sucks because their myth units are so cool (I love their snake and owl).

Any advice? I'm struggling to figure how to balance them.

Where do I find them? I play Magic the Gathering and there seems to be no shortage of boobie ladies and scanty women but there is almost nothing for guys. Is there a place I could find them?

Sort of a summing up of my last two posts on here. Between color vision being a "lie", sound just being pressure waves, the number of functional illusions that we live under, and chronostasis which is when our perception sorta "freezes" for a bit if we move too fast, how does one cope with this knowledge?

For the functional illusions how far does it go? Are people just "illusions" in that they are just collections of cells, or not even that just atoms? I find it hard to deal with this and it's not like I can deny biological reality. It's not like one can really do anything about it either since it's just how we are, but how do we go on after learning about how fallible we are?

Serious answers please.