The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours agoI find myself in this debate amongst friends and family regularlymedia.piefed.worldimagemessage-square115fedilinkarrow-up1469arrow-down16
arrow-up1463arrow-down1imageI find myself in this debate amongst friends and family regularlymedia.piefed.worldThe Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours agomessage-square115fedilink
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·16 hours agoYou say there is zero evidence, but there are, just use introspection, you are you. Cogito ergo sum. Make 2 “copies” it’s obvioys they aren not both you. Maybe neither. I’ll walk 😁
minus-squareCIA_chatbot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·16 hours agoCogito ergo sum. Latin for the internal “trust me bro” They are each themselves perfectly “you” until the first neuron forms independently. There isn’t some nebulous soul they are sharing, no “I have a soul and those two don’t”. They are all the same “Chemical impulse”machines until their split experience causes different neurons to form.
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·15 hours agoWell let’s turn the table, you can’t prove the opposite either.
minus-squarebear@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·14 hours agoThere’s no evidence that continuous consciousness isn’t an illusion due to memory being good enough.
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·12 hours agoSure, and if ot is so, then teleport is ok. But if it isn’t, which can’t be disproven, teleport is nono.
minus-squareCIA_chatbot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·10 hours agoYou can’t prove a negative. But we know how neurons work -
You say there is zero evidence, but there are, just use introspection, you are you. Cogito ergo sum.
Make 2 “copies” it’s obvioys they aren not both you. Maybe neither.
I’ll walk 😁
Cogito ergo sum. Latin for the internal “trust me bro”
They are each themselves perfectly “you” until the first neuron forms independently.
There isn’t some nebulous soul they are sharing, no “I have a soul and those two don’t”.
They are all the same “Chemical impulse”machines until their split experience causes different neurons to form.
Well let’s turn the table, you can’t prove the opposite either.
There’s no evidence that continuous consciousness isn’t an illusion due to memory being good enough.
Sure, and if ot is so, then teleport is ok. But if it isn’t, which can’t be disproven, teleport is nono.
You can’t prove a negative. But we know how neurons work -