Stathis: do you mean to recover Alzheimer-destroyed memories as well? JM On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Stathis Papaioannou <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Roger Clough <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Bruno Marchal >> >> My personal introspection will always have my personal >> memory as context, which a computer will not have. >> One can in fact say that I am my memory. My >> memory is the identity of my 1p and is what my 1p sees. >> >> This is perhaps the most serioous problem of comp. >> > > Your memory survives destruction of your brain. A new brain is constructed > over time such that after months almost none of the matter in the original > brain remains in your body. The old brain is used as a template, and only a > rough template at that. So there is no theoretical obstacle to transferring > your mind from one collection of matter to another. The question is whether > the mind can be replicated in a different substrate. This has been > discussed here before and I think the answer is clearly (though not > intuitively) yes, provided that the new substrate is able to replicate the > 3p observable behaviour of the brain. > > > -- > Stathis Papaioannou > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
