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Ok let's rephrase then: can those mini-brains be a "you"?
by s_gourichon 7y ago
Ok let's rephrase then: can those mini-brains be a "you"?
- dr1337 7y agoI guess if the stem-cells are taken from you as a donor then they would be genetically identical to you as much as twins are genetically identical individuals?
- MaxBarraclough 7y agoMandatory link to Wikipedia's article on Nagel's What Is It Like to Be a Bat? [0] > Nagel famously asserts that “an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism—something it is like for the organism." [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F
- taneq 7y agoOf course... but so can any appropriately constructed control system, and so can any living organism which senses its surroundings to some degree.