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I'm so glad that you have solved one of the major problems of philosophy and neuroscience in a handful of poorly-constructed sentences. This is a matter of muc

I'm so glad that you have solved one of the major problems of philosophy and neuroscience in a handful of poorly-constructed sentences. This is a matter of much debate in philosophy, neuroscience, and other fields. You accidentally touch on identity theory (bundle, substratum, etc), philosophy of mind, etc. The Ship of Theseus is an interesting problem - what if I gradually replace parts of someone's brain with artificial ones, so they are integrated with the rest?

Retra 9y ago
It's not so much an interesting problem as it is an obviously irrelevant one. Our day-to-day conceptualizations were not designed to handle intricate philosophical matters, and trying to force resolution in such plain language is often a source of confusion involving 'problems' that nobody ever seems to face.
cryoshon 9y ago
ship of theseus isn't relevant to nectome's claims or any claim regarding "uploading". "uploading" is just creating a copy in a different media. it doesn't preserve the conscioussness of the original media, it merely creates another. i think you'll find that the problems of philosophy and neuroscience operate at a different level of abstraction than what they're discussing. furthermore, academic concerns aside, there's no disproving my original comment in the context of technical feasibility. it's literally bulletproof; one person does not share the sensations of another person. postscript: i took a philosophy of mind class and a philosophy of cognition class and a systems neurobiology class in college plus a few others that are tangentially relevant. i'm not appealing to authority here, just stating that my simplistic objections are actually the result of an extensive amount of diving into the details of those disciplines. sometimes the details build a picture that's simple from afar.

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I'm so glad that you have solved one of the major problems of philosophy and neuroscience in a handful of poorly-constructed sentences. This is a matter of muc

by ashelmire 9y ago

Retra 9y ago
It's not so much an interesting problem as it is an obviously irrelevant one. Our day-to-day conceptualizations were not designed to handle intricate philosophical matters, and trying to force resolution in such plain language is often a source of confusion involving 'problems' that nobody ever seems to face.
cryoshon 9y ago
ship of theseus isn't relevant to nectome's claims or any claim regarding "uploading". "uploading" is just creating a copy in a different media. it doesn't preserve the conscioussness of the original media, it merely creates another. i think you'll find that the problems of philosophy and neuroscience operate at a different level of abstraction than what they're discussing. furthermore, academic concerns aside, there's no disproving my original comment in the context of technical feasibility. it's literally bulletproof; one person does not share the sensations of another person. postscript: i took a philosophy of mind class and a philosophy of cognition class and a systems neurobiology class in college plus a few others that are tangentially relevant. i'm not appealing to authority here, just stating that my simplistic objections are actually the result of an extensive amount of diving into the details of those disciplines. sometimes the details build a picture that's simple from afar.