If we developed the technique to transport your mental life to an android would you undergo the procedure?
It is not clear h o w we may transport your consciousness. For if we simply copied the information held in your brain configuration, the disturbing consequence would be that "you" die and only a copy of you is realized in the machine.
The question: the discontinuity of mental life offers us this fear -- that we sometimes drift into deep sleep and disrupt our chain of consciousness -- which most intuitively is a necessary condition for personal identity. So that each morning we may be another doppelganger, acting out our life AS IF the memories and ambitions we seem privileged to are indeed our own.
Is survival in the form of a virtually identical copy enough?
Would you discontinue your mental life after seeing your copy awake successfully?
If not -- sweet dreams.
2006-10-14 20:39:51 · 13 answers · asked by -.- 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Passed REM there is no mental content. This is the deep sleep I refer to. Once all mental life ends, there is no difference between a brain that has the same composition and your present brain. If we swapped them while in deep sleep, there would be no subjective difference when "you" awoke.
But that's clearly intolerable. And not just from the perspective of being the brain in the trash, but from the awake brain prior to sleep.
2006-10-14 21:31:46 · update #1
What if the mental states not the same as brain states?
If so, then how would i know that it is truly ME in the android, and not just a zombie?[1]
2006-10-15 10:02:07 · answer #1 · answered by hq3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't die in our sleep, as you envision, unless it is a dirt nap. Our brains, organic little machines, continue to work intensely as we "drift" along through the night. Our rest comes when our brains convert from Stage 4 to REM sleep. I've seen the squiggles that make up the brain waves of my so-called sleep. Unfortunately, I don't do REM sleep. My brain is 24/7/365 right now, and I'd love to have a copy take over for a day, if that meant I could rest - brain and all! Just one day.........
2006-10-15 04:02:57 · answer #2 · answered by sterling roses 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, we live even in sleep. And the copy never happens because there is no loss of identity in sleep. But yes everyone feels those things because the body requires that much, metabolically speaking. Nice Deep Thought.
2006-10-15 03:51:52 · answer #3 · answered by relaxed 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we are asleep, this is a dream that we have chosen to be a part of because we choose to believe we are it's creators. And a deep sleep came over Adam, never does it say he woke up.
I AM. S
2006-10-15 05:18:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
for one you are thinking far too much....stop smoking those drugs.....two do you see how flawed your concept is.....there is no way that thought processes could co exist in an adroid body...without there being a personality or behaviour shift.....our emotional quotient and the feelings we experience as human beings is what makes who we are in the first place....why would anyone want to change that..
2006-10-15 04:04:06 · answer #5 · answered by Mintjulip 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jeesh...just let me die in my sleep. I wouldn't want a replicant of myself roaming the planet. When I go, I want to be GONE.
2006-10-15 08:16:27 · answer #6 · answered by PariahMaterial 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but I certainly wouldn't mind dream permanence.
2006-10-15 04:02:22 · answer #7 · answered by EuroBeats 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some did, but than they are not awaking in the morning. it's just our rest. justOne
2006-10-15 03:43:04 · answer #8 · answered by justOne 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe
2006-10-15 03:41:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow youre thinking too much but hey its a unique question
2006-10-15 03:45:25 · answer #10 · answered by jk 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋