On 7/26/2019 2:10 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 12:44 AM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
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On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 2:42 PM Jason Resch <[email protected]
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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".
It's a given that the intermediate stages are neither like you nor
like Caesar. But if you can remain conscious/alive during the process,
then "what happened to you", "did you die in the transformation?", etc.
Jason
/But if //*you*//can remain conscious/alive during the process, then
"what happened to you", "did you die in the transformation?", etc. //
/
But /*you*/ obviously can't.
Brent
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