On 01-08-2019 18:41, Jason Resch wrote:
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 1:08 AM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
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On 7/29/2019 2:14 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
That is not a well-defined procedure -- too many ambiguities remain.
What is ambiguous? One physical state "your brain" is adjusted
gradually until it is equal to the brain of someone else. You agree
this is physically possible, right?
No, it's not possible if the conscious processes of the brain are
digital. Then there is a lower bound to "gradualness".
If it is digital then wouldn't it already be "discontinuous" by
nature? Are you suggesting personal identity can or should be defined
by mapping an identity to a particular digital program?
And what if the two brains have different numbers of neurons and
different numbers of connections...how can you map one to the other?
No problem. New neurons grow and die all the time in our own brains.
One can also simulate a digital system by a larger digital system,
allowing one to interpolate the smallest steps of the smaller system.
Saibal
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