Without yet going back to look at what I was responding to, it sounds like I'm talking about the self. I don't think there's a soul-ish kind of thing ...
Yes, if matters. If you freeze the brain with cold, then you've killed it. There is no continuity of memory, or life, from one moment to the next. If ...
No, it's clarification. It seems to me most people think consciousness means a lot more than subjective experience. Cognition, thinking, awareness, se...
It isn't as though there is no connection between the physical brain and memories. Continuity of memories is accomplished by subjectively experiencing...
I don't see any reason it must work alone. I can examine things wherever it finds them. My general idea is that it we shouldn't be surprised if our ph...
I don't know. I'm wracking my brain. It is not measurable or detectable in any way. There is nothing about any or all of the physical properties of th...
Your continuity ends when your particles are separated, regardless of the scenario or any considerations. The reassembled person, or exact replica, wi...
Well, I've read your first couple posts a few times. But I don't see that my comments would need different than what over been saying. You do not surv...
I came in after a few pages, and joined the conversation that was in progress. Thread drift is inevitable, as they say. I'll read your OP before posti...
I agree. That sounds right to me. I don't think reason and intellect are parts of consciousness, so it's not even a case of something examining itself...
An atom is organic? How is memory accomplished in an atom? How does an atom change what it does in a given set of circumstances the next time it encou...
I really can't tell from your post if you want to understand my position. If not, no worries. If you are, you have a lot of it wrong. I'm not going to...
I'm not. Consciousness A can be identical to Consciousness B. But A is not B. Identical things are not the same thing. That applies to consciousnesses...
I'll tell you why I think not. I believe I define consciousness, and interpret everything we see and everything within us, differently than anybody el...
If my atoms are dispersed, I have no memories. Or life. Building a replica of me means it has my memories, and everything else. But it's still a repli...
So that's a difference between (at least my) panpsychism and IIT. Zero consciousness does not exist. A photon subjectively experiences, though, obviou...
The position is the argument. Source Kirk is killed. That's what happens when someone's atoms are dispersed. Destination Kirk is a duplicate. Destinat...
This is the one. Except Destination Kirk doesn't "just happen" to be the same. He's a copy. Of course he's the same. But Source Kirk was disintegrated...
Is it not a problem that, despite there being no self beyond the instant, the "illusion of persistence" of more is the only thing none of us would giv...
I suspect nobody would go along with my scenario of being disintegrated after seeing the copy come into being. Much less assuming or being assured a c...
What does IIT say when there is no ?? My distinction came next, when I said even the simplest organism is running many information processing systems....
Would you willingly be transported if, for some weird reason of the technology, the duplicate came into being, and then you were disintegrated? You se...
I never heard of Parfit until you mentioned him in the other post. But I know what I think about the topic, so if such a device is built, I will avoid...
The OP is about the transporters on Star Trek, and it doesn't mention Parfit. No. I first started thinking of it when I read a Star Trek novel called ...
Either the chairs are all the same chair and the people are all the same person, or the chairs and the people are identical copies. If the universe is...
I think there is a difference between two things being identical and two things being the exact same thing. A factory can pump out, let's say, 1,000 c...
We all have our opinions. Mine is that, if all of my atoms are separated from each other, I no longer exist. Just because my atoms all still exist doe...
It's the premise of the OP. But that's a catch-all. Any other hypothetical methods of doing the same thing are fine. I don't think there's any need fo...
Well, we're talking about Star Trek transporters, or whatever is similar enough. Nobody has ever materialized on any of the shows and thought they wer...
Does IIT not say consciousness is information processing? [Well, I think everything is conscious, but only of itself. A computer that processes inform...
No. If my atoms are separated, I do not exist. You can build a replica of me, from the atoms that were once part of me, or from different atoms of the...
You cannot successfully transport a living person if you separate all their atoms. You have already failed, because separating all of a person's atoms...
The original is always killed, and a copy constructed at the destination. Maybe deconstructing the original is needed to get all the information, and ...
End of the day, all theories explain it with, "That's the way it is." Even beyond theories of consciousness. Why is there something instead of nothing...
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