RE: Immortality

From: Charles Goodwin <cgoodwin.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 14:59:35 +1300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brent Meeker [mailto:meekerdb.domain.name.hidden]
> Sent: Wednesday, 10 October 2001 2:23 a.m.
>
> But then why do you say that a duplicate of your brain processes in a
> computer would not be conscious. You seem to be
> discriminating between
> a biological duplicate and a silicon duplicate.

The use of the word 'duplicate' seems contentious to me. The question is whether you *can* duplicate the processes in the brain at a
suitable level of abstraction, and whether (if you can) such a duplicate would be conscious. I don't think anyone knows the answer
to this (yet) !

Charles
Received on Tue Oct 09 2001 - 18:56:30 PDT