Thanks. This idea came to me because when you talk to people about immortality, the brain is always cited as a single-point-of-failure that can't be replaced. Usually people want to say that uploading to a computer is a good option, but that strikes me the same as a Star Trek transporter. If at some point in time you are in your organic brain, and also in a computer, and there are 2 of you, doesn't that really mean that you have made a copy of yourself, not uploaded the 'real' you?
We need to quantify consciousness? Ouch, my brain hurts. When is it no longer “you” wow! Great article. Thanks
Thanks. This idea came to me because when you talk to people about immortality, the brain is always cited as a single-point-of-failure that can't be replaced. Usually people want to say that uploading to a computer is a good option, but that strikes me the same as a Star Trek transporter. If at some point in time you are in your organic brain, and also in a computer, and there are 2 of you, doesn't that really mean that you have made a copy of yourself, not uploaded the 'real' you?