[ExI] Strong AI Hypothesis: logically flawed?

[Tomaz Kristan]

Mr. Flynn!

How many cells must die, for me to die?


On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com>
wrote:

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>
> On Friday, October 3, 2014, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> ​I think what is missing here is the idea of real death.  All body cells
>> die.  All of them.  Yes, cells are replaced while you are living but there
>> is a continuity effected by the still living ones.  If all cells are dead
>> there is no continuity possible.
>>
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> In what we normally understand as death, all the cells die and are not
> replaced. But if the cells are replaced, that isn't death.
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>> What y'all seem to be saying is that if you could extract a copy of your
>> memories, put them into hard drive, then download them into some other body
>> or robot, then there are two yous​
>> ​.  I say there is only one 'you' and if it is dead then it cannot awaken
>> somewhere else.  A copy is not the original.
>>
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> But you seem to think a copy *is* the original if it is replaced over
> time. What basis do you have for making this distinction?
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>
>> The original premise of all this is, of course, impossible.  bill w​
>>
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