[MD] Platt's Individual Level

[David]

>I'm not at all sure I agree with this! This seems like essentially nonsense
> >to me. So if I were to shoot a man, I would inf act be doing nothing more
> >than killing my idea of that man?
>
> I think it is easy to forget how it is that we experience the world. Yes.
> You would be doing nothing more than killing your idea of that man. Your
> idea of the man is all there is.



I think you really have to consider what you mean by killing your idea of a
person.  If your murder someone you still have your idea of them, right?  Do
you suddenly forget all memory of them?  You have definitely ended their
existence as a stable biological pattern of value but they would still seem
to exist as an intellectual pattern of value for those who knew them
including yourself.

Regards,
David