Your identity isn't fixed—it's built on hidden assumptions about reality. If you assume you're just neural activity, a simulation character, or the product of deterministic causes, you get three completely different selves. A two-hour debate about art was really just two people arguing from different metaphysical premises.
Your identity is based on your metaphysical assumptions about reality. Now let's plug in some assumptions into you. Let's plug in brain, simulation, and determinism. If we take these assumptions about your identity, then it generates the result of, you are a pattern of brain activity, a character in a simulation, and the result of prior causes. And you are able to put an endless amount of different assumptions and create an infinite amount of possibilities! If all you are is assumptions, what assumptions make up you? Who are you? If you don't know, just type in what you think you are and the website will derive the underlying assumptions to your beliefs. This is my cutting-edge new website! WhoAreYouLogic.com. This shows that the assumptions we take determine how we perceive ourselves and live our lives. But our assumptions don't only determine our identity, they also determine all of language. This is me having a 2-hour argument about what art is. But what we didn't realize is that we were really arguing about metaphysical assumptions of reality.
Would you want to gain all the knowledge in the universe? #minecraftphilosophy
