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Walf 21 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the ...

I always find that idea of uploading a mind so detached from reality. It's as irrational as thinking that physically reprogramming one twin's brain to be the same as the other's would make them the same conscious person.

try_the_bass 21 days ago [–]

The Ship of Thesus is a powerful metaphor

Walf 21 days ago | [–]

The ship was inanimate, and though it may appear otherwise, so are computers.

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