But the "what matters" part is the basis of dualism. If everything is consciousness, then the cells of the brain - and the brain itself - are ideas in consciousness. So the brain copy would be conscious according to consciousness monism!
With dualism, you get what you said: Something is left behind in the copy. I'm pointing out that if you are a true consciousness monist, then the brain copy would be conscious too. - pt On Monday, April 22, 2019 at 4:13:13 PM UTC-5, Cosmin Visan wrote: > > Is just an analogy to make you understand better the problems that will > appear in case you want to "copy" the brain. The true reason is that the > "brain" is just a very specific image that you see in your own > consciousness of a much greater reality that you don't see. And you can > only copy what you see. But copying only what you see will leave the > reality behind not taken into account. So you will only end up with a > picture that will not do anything, because you didn't copy what matters. > > On Tuesday, 23 April 2019 00:05:13 UTC+3, Philip Thrift wrote: >> >> >> "Souls" are entities of body-soul Dualism: There needs to be a :soul to >> enter a Me-2 body. >> >> Are you a consciousness monist or a dualist? It sounds like more the >> latter than the former. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
