[ExI] Let's play What If.

[Stathis Papaioannou]

2010/10/30 John Clark <jonkc at bellsouth.net>:
> On Oct 29, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> Why would I be nervous? I'd feel sick with disgust at my psychotic captors
> and sorrow for my poor duplicate, though.
>
> So the one thing the duplication process cannot duplicate is your soul, thus
> your soul will always stick to the original (even though none of the atoms
> are original), and your soul will not go to the copy so you NEVER identify
> with the copy; even though the copy most certainly identifies with you. I
> disagree, I don't believe in the soul.

The soul/identity/consciousness/esssence is transferred in the course
of normal physiological replacement of the brain, but not if the
replacement occurs artificially. I have never seen in any of these
threads an attempt at an explanation of this mysterious process.


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Stathis Papaioannou