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It seems awfully fragile. What happens if that cell dies? Do you turn into a p-zombie? :) Scientists have been studying brain damage for a long time, and it se
by skybrian 4y ago
It seems awfully fragile. What happens if that cell dies? Do you turn into a p-zombie? :)
Scientists have been studying brain damage for a long time, and it seems pretty clear that minds are more distributed than that. Oliver Sacks wrote a lot about this sort of thing.
- resource0x 4y agoI don't know what happens if that cell dies. The person may die. Or another neuron may take over (e.g. after coma). But under the new management, the person won't be the same as before. This is not something unheard-of. There are precedents. There are some neurons that control muscles. If the neuron dies, the brain loses control over this muscle. There's no regeneration, and no other neuron takes over.