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Would your brain uploaded onto computer still be you?
by wao0uuno 2y ago
Would your brain uploaded onto computer still be you?
- seanw444 2y agoA copy of you, not the same instance.
- BoiledCabbage 2y agoDo you create a new instance every time you awaken from sleep? If not, why not?
- seanw444 2y agoBecause the same you has been active the whole time. Your brain didn't cease function through sleep. Kind of like sleep mode vs. rebooting a computer.
- astrange 2y agoYou're mostly driven by bodily conditions and hormones. A computer recording of you isn't going to behave the same because it has no particular motivation to behave any specific way in the first place.
- FeepingCreature 2y agoIf you can simulate a brain, you can simulate hormones.
- astrange 2y agoHow do you decide what to set them to? You don't have intrinsic motivations anymore!
- FeepingCreature 2y agoEh? You can have as many intrinsic motivations as you like. You just copy the procedure from the original brain.
- astrange 2y agoThe original ones are wrong though (well, not adaptive). Hunger is pointless when you can't eat.
- foobiekr 2y agoHans Moravec has an incrementalist approach to this which I think actually does accomplish eliminating the copy issue.
- FeepingCreature 2y agoTo be noted, if you accept a brain upload made gradually you should also accept a brain upload made discontinuously. If the same brain state comes out, the process can't actually matter.