A term for an individual uniqueness
Fascinating read here, and it really does help to give you new ideas for the science fiction element.
What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit?
Ah, how I sometimes wish I'd taken more cognitive science courses in college. They didn't offer them nearly often enough to fit into my schedule though unfortunately. I especially like the discussion on the term haecceity.
"Haecceity also explains why you can gradually replace every atom in an object so that it not longer contains any of the original material and yet psychologically, we consider it to be the same object. That transformation can be total but so long as it has been gradual, we consider it to be the same thing. It is haecceity that enables us to accept restoration of valuable works of art and antiquities as a continuous process of rejuvenation. Even when we discover that we replace most of the cellular structures of our bodies every couple of decades, haecceity enables us to consider the continuity of our own unique self."
In essence, it's a need to find a term for why the gut reaction for the loss of an individual even though that item or person or sheep could be completely cloned in some futuristic world of science fiction. It's the idea of the uniqueness of an individual even if slow changes are still allowed to occur. (ie. a child becomes an adult, a painting restoration) It's stuff like this that really gets my mind going on science fiction thoughts, as you can see. ;)
What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit?
Ah, how I sometimes wish I'd taken more cognitive science courses in college. They didn't offer them nearly often enough to fit into my schedule though unfortunately. I especially like the discussion on the term haecceity.
"Haecceity also explains why you can gradually replace every atom in an object so that it not longer contains any of the original material and yet psychologically, we consider it to be the same object. That transformation can be total but so long as it has been gradual, we consider it to be the same thing. It is haecceity that enables us to accept restoration of valuable works of art and antiquities as a continuous process of rejuvenation. Even when we discover that we replace most of the cellular structures of our bodies every couple of decades, haecceity enables us to consider the continuity of our own unique self."
In essence, it's a need to find a term for why the gut reaction for the loss of an individual even though that item or person or sheep could be completely cloned in some futuristic world of science fiction. It's the idea of the uniqueness of an individual even if slow changes are still allowed to occur. (ie. a child becomes an adult, a painting restoration) It's stuff like this that really gets my mind going on science fiction thoughts, as you can see. ;)