> you are still no less dead Well, therein lies the rub. Q: What is "you"? What does it mean to be self-aware? What is the "self"? Are we each a separate self

> you are still no less dead Well, therein lies the rub. Q: What is "you"? What does it mean to be self-aware? What is the "self"? Are we each a separate self-aware entity? Are we all just reincarnations of the same conciousness? If you build a sufficiently advanced simulation of a brain, will it be self-aware? Can you be reincarnated as a machine? Can we link two brains together in a way that results in a single conciousness? Do people who have had their left and right hemispheres separated have two "souls" now? If the universe ends in heat death and some spontaneous fluctuation causes a true vacuum to appear, inside of which a completely new universe is born, in which thinking beings emerge, can you be reincarnated as one of them? Do things ever end? A: Buggered if I know. (for now)