Vertiginous question
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Vertiginous question
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Benj Hellie's vertiginous question asks why, of all the subjects of experience out there, this one—the one corresponding to the human being referred to as Benj Hellie—is the one whose experiences are live? In other words: Why am I me and not someone else? A simple response is that this question reduces to "Why are Hellie's experiences live from Hellie's perspective," which is trivial to answer. However Hellie argues, through a parable, that this response leaves something out. His parable describ
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Philosophical argument by Benj Hellie
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertiginous_question
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2014-02-22T19:42:57Z
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2024-09-03T12:28:16Z
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