On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 2:42 PM Jason Resch <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
For example, you could, over time, change neuron by neuron, until you looked like and had the mind of Julius Caesar.
I think these thought experiments need to be more carefully considered. I don't think it is nomologically possible to give you the mind of Julius Caesar by transferring on neuron at a time. That would entail intermediate stages in which neurons were connected neither as yours were nor as Caesar's were, and less obviously the same goes for the connections of the body cells. It is too cheap to just say "at the appropriate substitution level".
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