However, if they could replace it incrementally and guarantee I was conscious the whole time, I don't consider that death, Does anyone else share this intuition? — RogueAI
Continuity of phenomenal self-awareness is personal identity
if they could replace it incrementally and guarantee I was conscious the whole time, I don't consider that death, — RogueAI
Are you asking this for purely philosophical inquiry, or for medical science and the public?If someone told me they were going to duplicate and replace my brain with a mechanical one (and dispose of the organic one), I would consider that death. However, if they could replace it incrementally and guarantee I was conscious the whole time, I don't consider that death, Does anyone else share this intuition? — RogueAI
I'd have said that it was a replacement of everything below the neck, not above it. You didn't get a new head. The head got your body. You're gone.It always puzzles me whenever an attempt is made to transplant a head. Recently, they had transplanted mice heads. It lived for a day. But there's also a procedure done on monkey decades ago. The monkey survived for hours. — L'éléphant
I fall asleep and my personal identity survives, even if I've been unconscious indefinitely. A full replacement with a mechanical brain that was somehow loaded up with all the memories would be no different in principle than just waking from anesthesia. In practice, while I have no problems with the mechanical thinker being conscious, it just wouldn't feel the same. You'd have to rig it up to react to all the chemical changes and such, and not just be a bunch of digital circuits.Continuity of phenomenal self-awareness is personal identity, — 180 Proof
Lots of games to play here. Would you consider a star-trek style transporter to be death? The machine takes you apart down to the atom and rebuilds an identical one somewhere else. The memories are there, but is it you? What if it's a copy and they don't destroy the original. Is the new one you now?If someone told me they were going to duplicate and replace my brain with a mechanical one (and dispose of the organic one), I would consider that death. — RogueAI
If someone told me they were going to duplicate and replace my brain with a mechanical one (and dispose of the organic one), I would consider that death. However, if they could replace it incrementally and guarantee I was conscious the whole time, I don't consider that death, Does anyone else share this intuition? — RogueAI
Maybe they have already done this on you — Angelo Cannata
If someone told me they were going to duplicate and replace my brain with a mechanical one... — RogueAI
Perhaps if you read the OP and the link you would see? — I like sushi
The link I provided you numb nut :D — I like sushi
Old wine in a new bottle: The Ship of Theseus. What if we reassemble your brain parts. What then? — Agent Smith
Funny you say this. Our identity is tied to a mirror, if I may say so. I almost agreed with you -- but then, first thing you look at if you want to know if you're still you, is your reflection on the mirror. You don't question why your mind has changed.I'd have said that it was a replacement of everything below the neck, not above it. You didn't get a new head. The head got your body. You're gone. — noAxioms
particles being you, can never be you again. — Haglund
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