<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 9, 2025, 3:29 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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On 09/04/2025 00:22, BillK wrote:<br>
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<pre><div dir="ltr">Gemini 2.5 Pro AI has just released the Deep Research version, so I repeated the same question.
It took a while and looked at over 170 websites to generate a report.</div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">Impressive, but the question remains undecided. :)</div></div><div dir="ltr">BillK
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<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">W</span>hich
of the three alternative types of Individualism is likely to be more
correct? Empty Individualism Closed Individualism Open Individualism
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I can't help wondering if anyone has yet asked a chatbot how many
angels can dance on the head of a pin.<br></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">A) If you freeze your brain for 100 years and it is thawed and placed in a new body grown from your DNA is it still you, have you survived this procedure?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">B) What if they destructively scan your brain's connectome and 3D print a new living brain from an entirely new set of material? Is it still you, and have you survived this procedure?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">C) What if they use the scan to upload your brain's connectome into a computer to control a robot body that in all respects looks like and senses like your biological body, is it still you?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">D) What if part of your brain was damaged from a crack, corresponding to memories of a vacation, but those parts of your connectome were reconstructed from digital records (phone location data, digital photos, emails taken while you were on that vacation, etc.). Is it still you, have you survived the process?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The answer to these questions depends on which theory of personal identity is correct.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So it isn't an idle question without consequences. Rather, the answer concerns what is for many people, quite important: continuing to exist in the world.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jason </div></div>