lemme in@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoThis researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates.www.technologyreview.comexternal-linkmessage-square160fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkThis researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates.www.technologyreview.comlemme in@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square160fedilink
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 month agoHow would you know? How do you know you’re not a copy of yesterday’s you? If a clone has your memories and you’re not around anymore, then what’s the difference?
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoDon’t try to get philosophical about this. There is a hard difference between copying a brain and actually transferring consciousness.
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 month ago Don’t try to get philosophical about this. Er? It’s a philosophical conversation since, you know, brain uploading is not a thing. If you don’t want to engage in philosophy, you’re in the wrong place.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoYou’re mixing up speculative and philosophical.
minus-squarerealitista@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoYou’d have to experience death for the clone to continue being the only copy.
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoYeah. In the example above the original is dead, and a clone with all of your memories up until the point of death is generated. In that case, there is continuity of concussions, at least as far as anyone can tell, least of all the clone.
How would you know?
How do you know you’re not a copy of yesterday’s you? If a clone has your memories and you’re not around anymore, then what’s the difference?
Don’t try to get philosophical about this. There is a hard difference between copying a brain and actually transferring consciousness.
Er? It’s a philosophical conversation since, you know, brain uploading is not a thing.
If you don’t want to engage in philosophy, you’re in the wrong place.
You’re mixing up speculative and philosophical.
You’d have to experience death for the clone to continue being the only copy.
Yeah. In the example above the original is dead, and a clone with all of your memories up until the point of death is generated.
In that case, there is continuity of concussions, at least as far as anyone can tell, least of all the clone.