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Old 07-15-08, 05:38 PM   #30 (permalink)
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Re: Why are you you and me me?

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Originally Posted by Reverend_Hellh0und View Post
interesting, but one question, are you suggesting you could program a robot hypothetically to have your conciousness or its own?
Hypothetically it could be either. Like if you could scan every cell in your own brain and instantly make a simulated replica.

But it would just be a copy of my consciousness, not "my" consciousness.


Now here is an interesting question: would that simulation have... rights....?


I think despite it being exactly like me it would be a (newly found term I just discovered) Philosophical zombie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. And this comes from my belief that it wouldn't possess a soul.

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