User:A Helpful Little Gnome/NoteBook3x/percycl

  

WORN NOTEBOOK

> Browse the notebook A dozen or so pages are flipped. Six of them should be looked at for the second time. One of the pages was about a cavern, another about knowing, and another about permutations and cycles. There was another page about narration. Some more page flipping reveals something about city maps and not talking to strangers. > Read about 'permutations and cycles' The author's reductionism suggests your identity and consciousness is a particular arrangement of electrons. Your mind would persist as long as these electrons could be rearranged when moved out of arrangement. It's unknown to most people that everything is repeating with a few small changes between each repetition, or permutation. The only way you could know was if you were able to stick around from permutation to permutation, but most people can't. They're reset. I'm not. If the same particles in the same arrangement with the same elections doing the same thing in the same bonds are put out of their arrangement and then put back in the exact, identical way, it's the same thing. If I have my brain in my head in my body, and it collects memories by changing bonds and electrons, and these bonds and electrons aren't put back to where they were previously, at some begin state, then I have retained my memories. Most people don't end up like this. They're reset, or put back together in their original state. I stay the same, and am able to make new bonds that build from retainment of the old ones. In that way I can learn more than the rest. It puts me beyond them. Back