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I think Ray uses "upload" as shorthand for something more complex. Say over the course of 10 years you replaced 1 of the millions of cortical columns in your n
by rpm4321 13y ago
I think Ray uses "upload" as shorthand for something more complex.
Say over the course of 10 years you replaced 1 of the millions of cortical columns in your neocortex every minute or so with a functionally equivalent computer chip. You would never stop being you. Your consciousness would never be interrupted. You would simply become something greater.
This is already happening in a very limited way with the various brain implants used to treat Parkinson's, hearing impairment, blindness, strokes, head injuries, etc.:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_implant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_implant
- tcbawo 13y agoOr you would slowly, imperceptibly become 'not' you.
- henryaj 13y agoThis has the same issues of defining the 'self' that we already do -- namely that none of the cells in your body are the same as the cells that made you up ten years ago. Maybe we're all imperceptibly becoming someone else all the time...
- tcbawo 13y agoI picture 'self' as a surfer riding a wave. If you could suddenly and instantaneously replace every molecule in the wave without getting the velocity exactly right, the experience changes. History is altered, a fork of you.
- drjesusphd 13y agoI slowly, imperceptibly become "not me" every day. I change and become a different person; so do you.
- 3rd3 13y agoWhy does it have to be a slow process? That sounds like a cheat workaround for the difficulties of defining "self" and "consciousness".
- aodin 13y agoPlutarch described this paradox of gradual replacement in the ship of Theseus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus