Thanks for expanding on that. Interesting stuff. (I don't know if meditation helps either.)
It feels like an important difference between the brain currents you describe and an upload (or transporter or whatever) is that the one is gradual and continuous, while the other is discontinuous. I mean, we replace all our skin in, what, a few months? Over and over again. But we never say that this isn't the same body we had a year ago, because at any given point in time the vast majority of it isn't new. Brain currents don't feel any different to me than gradual changes in the opinions we hold and the perceptions we have.
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Date: 2019-05-21 03:22 am (UTC)It feels like an important difference between the brain currents you describe and an upload (or transporter or whatever) is that the one is gradual and continuous, while the other is discontinuous. I mean, we replace all our skin in, what, a few months? Over and over again. But we never say that this isn't the same body we had a year ago, because at any given point in time the vast majority of it isn't new. Brain currents don't feel any different to me than gradual changes in the opinions we hold and the perceptions we have.