Thread: How are we not a computer?

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01-22-2010 08:47 AM #11

Taosaur

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Originally Posted by tkdyo

mm I think that was worded a bit wrong, I meant...why cant the consciousness itself be transferred if it purely arises from a physical process when all the parts can be transferred.

There's no "it" to transfer. If a weather system exists over Iowa, and you manage to engineer a weather system over Spain that is, for a moment, identical, have you transferred the storm from Iowa to Spain? Does it remotely matter whether or not you dissipate the original storm? Is it even sensible to call it "the same storm" if it's traveling over and being shaped by a different landscape?

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