On 7/22/2019 10:22 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 15:00, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
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On 7/22/2019 9:42 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 11:55, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
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On 7/22/2019 2:58 PM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote:
If the the brain scans showed the same correlations
between patterns of neuron activity and behavior (like
speech or problem solving) that would be evidence that
it was the same person.
Yes, but that won’t solve philosophical problems such as,
“if it looks like me and acts like me is it really me?”
I didn't realize that was a problem. I've heard of people
who don't recognize themself in a mirror. But if they ask
"Is it really me." the "it" tells me it's not really them.
If it were really them, they'd ask, "Am I really me." to
which the answer would be "Yes."
People wonder if a copy that is arbitrarily close to them would
really be them.
Not people. Only philosophers. If you saw a copy of yourself,
could you plausibly ask yourself, "Is that really me?"
If I saw another copy then it wouldn't be me.
Exactly. So no rational person would wonder whether the copy was
"really me". Only a philosopher would ask that.
Brent
The copy would have his own, separate experiences, even if we shared
the same memories and physical appearance.
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