AI Snips
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Group Identity
- Conceptualize permeable boundaries of groups like nations similarly to individual humans.
- Their true identity lies in their higher aspect (name/memory/attention), not fixed physical or conceptual boundaries.
Nominalism and Consciousness
- Bernardo Kastrup warns against assigning consciousness to everything with a name.
- Word usage is arbitrary, so basing consciousness on nominal definitions creates ontological problems.
Individual Boundaries
- Jonathan Pageau argues that the same boundary problem applies to individuals.
- He questions whether removed body parts still participate in one's conscious agency.