[ExI] Digital Consciousness .

[Alan Grimes]

Kelly Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG at verizon.net 
> <mailto:ALONZOTG at verizon.net>> wrote:
>
>     Kelly Anderson wrote:
>
>
>             Furthermore, claiming identity based on pattern identity
>         theory
>             and then claiming the ability to make whole-sale changes is
>             isomorphic to having your cake and eating it too.
>
>         I don't want my upload to be identical to me. I want my upload
>         to be a better me. That's why I call it transhumanism. Or am I
>         missing something vital here?
>
>
>     !!!
>
>     By what means, then, can you call such an upload, your future self???
>
>
> Because I change every day. That would just be one more such change. 
> If I learn Chinese, do I stop being myself?
>
> -Kelly

Don't try to confuse the issue. We are not talking about learning X, 
with it's attendant synaptic changes, we are talking about making 
arbitrary changes to a mindfile while simultaneously claiming that the 
integrity of the mindfile is the basis of identity.

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