Am Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2001 15:57 schrieb Harvey Newstrom:
> Here are some non-objective questions with no objective answer:
>
> Which one is "me"?
That's the point.
Since we cannot even tell if "we" are really existing (simulation
argument), if we really have existed yesterday (are these memories real)
and finally _what_ really turns some bioelectrical mass into an "I", every
effort to copy "I" is like digging for gold while wearing a blindfold.
"I" am not (biologically) the same person that "I" was twenty years ago,
since most of the atoms in my body have been replaced, but "I" claim to
exist for three and a half decades now. Hm.
For practical copying of persons, this may not be an issue, but when it
comes to immortality, meaning immortality of my individual mind, my
consciousness, my ego, whatever, this is the central point. When I am an
individual, the other must be a different person.
The efficient way to solve this problem seem to me, first to look _if_
there really is an "I", second to locate it, and _then_ try to transmute
(or transfer?) it from biological to technological substrate.
Kai
-- == Kai M. Becker == kmb@kai-m-becker.de == Bremen, Germany == "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced"
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