Re: Existential risks

On Apr 28, 11:51 am, c...@xxxxxxxx (Curt Welch) wrote:

"We" are a brain in a body, not a "set of behaviors"
and by the time uploading is possible, everyone will
understand that, even if the mass delusion about
consciousness which still exists in our society
makes many think otherwise today.

So if we are the brain, the current set of molecules
that make up the brain, then who is the person that
exists when all those molecules are replaced, as
they are, as we age?

Is that whirlpool we see moving down the river, with
ever changing water molecules making up it structure,
a behavior, a physical thing or what? At what point,
as molecules enter and exit a dynamic system such as
a human brain or a whirlpool, does the system change
from being this system at time_n and another system
at time_n+x?

JC


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