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The strange places this leads arrive almost immediately. Are you the same person after you take a nap? Doesn't your consciousness basically dissolve and then re
by theothermkn 9y ago
The strange places this leads arrive almost immediately. Are you the same person after you take a nap? Doesn't your consciousness basically dissolve and then reconstitute itself when "you" wake? What about from second to second, between moments of inattention? Are we relying on the "stability" of your constituent atoms? On some "arrangement" of them? On a particular locus of sensation (the goo in your brain pan)?
What if we "clone" you by copying every other atom into a "left" clone, leaving the original in the right, and doing the reverse on the alternating atoms? Which resulting "clone" is you?
This way lies madness. Possibly twice.
- nwah1 9y agoLook into open individualism as one possible resolution.
- henrikschroder 9y ago> Are you the same person after you take a nap? Yes. > Doesn't your consciousness basically dissolve and then reconstitute itself when "you" wake? Yes. > What about from second to second, between moments of inattention? Yes. > Are we relying on the "stability" of your constituent atoms? Yes. > On some "arrangement" of them? Yes. > On a particular locus of sensation (the goo in your brain pan)? Yes. > What if we "clone" you by copying every other atom into a "left" clone, leaving the original in the right, and doing the reverse on the alternating atoms? Which resulting "clone" is you? My father replaced the handle, and I replaced the blade, but it's still my grandfather's axe? Neither. You ripped my brain in half, I am dead.