Re: Jade Goody

"- .. -- Tim .-." wrote:

Frederick Williams wrote:
Kendall K Down wrote:

Really? So far as I know, a doctor can tell you what happens to a
body which dies, but has nothing to say about the *person*.

There is no especially compelling reason to think that persons aren't
just bodies.

If so, there are several interesting philosophical questions that arise,
such as, if the nature of consciousness is purely in the physical body then
we ought to be able to create consciousness artificially,

Someday maybe.

and it might even
to be possible to preserve consciousness artificially (i.e. 'download' the
person onto a computer or something). If not now, at least sometime in the
future.

I doubt that would ever prove possible.

Tim.


--
Science is a differential equation.
Religion is a boundary condition.
--Alan Turing


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