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Seismosaur
No, you would cease to exist, or be fragmented if your brain is replaced or partially damaged.
Next time apply all questions of the brain like this to a computer.
But at what point would you lose your consciousness? When the first part is repaired? When more than 50% is repaired? 30%? 78.54%? See it's hard to tell when. Imagine that you are the one going through the series of operations. When would you cease to be you?
Xei: That's a really interesting idea, the whole China brain thing. I think it wouldn't have a consciousness, simply because the whole system is constructed from the bottom up... if you get what I mean. See I think that somehow human reproduction fuses an individual consciousness (or ghost if you will ha) to a physical body and that the ghost is the highest level of a person. I'm of the belief the hierarchy is something like this:
Consciousness
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Thought
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Physical Body
Constructing the China system would create a physical body capable of thought to be sure, but I don't think it could ever have a consciousness. Of course it would be a zombie, philisophically speaking, so we could really never determine whether or not it was conscious... but it probably wouldn't be.