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Originally posted by Xei
Hmm... What I'm talking about here is not how similar the conciousnesses are, but if they're yours, or somebody else's...
exactly, i mean to say, that new consciousness is not yours, no matter how similar it is.
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What it seems to say is that conciousness 'belongs' to the atoms. If you get new atoms in their place, even though they have exactly the same structure, the conciousness is also new. So it follows that there is something 'more' to the atoms which defines them. Either that, or conciousness isn't brought about by mass and energy at all. [/b]
perhaps consciousness is an independent energy which is merely adept at manipulating atoms and thus the neuronal processes we can see are just the effects of consciousness (i.e. a cloud of "consciousness" hanging above your head at all times reaching a tentacle into your brain to steer your legs, arms, thoughts, etc with neuron firing), afterall, we know that neurons control the body, but what controls the neurons? or rather, what starts them in this crazy pattern that immediately is able to control itself? we still haven't been able to come up with the "equation" that allows for this self-altering infinitely recursive function to exist, but i guess it's always possible that millions of years of evolution have come up with the perfect solution in our DNA.