On 8/1/2019 9:41 AM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 1:08 AM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: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.
By that argument there's no reason to exchange A's brain with B's brain. They'll just grow new neurons anyway (although it's not clear that mature brains grow very many new neurons).
My point is that if A's brain has five neurons and B's brain has seven neurons, then you can't "gradually" transfer A's connectivity to B's brain. There are going to be unconnected neurons at some point.
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