A look at how emerging concepts in science & technology could disrupt our most our understandings of identity, consciousness, and free will. This is the 5th episode of the Existential Crisis series which looks at concepts like Transhumanism, Life Extension, the Simulation Hypothesis, the Doomsday Argument, and the Anthropic Principle.
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I don't remember why I didn't like this video 3 years ago
" the benefit of hundreds or thousands of parents…" That's a nope
Love that minute+ long rambling from the multiple people who are different from the first person which the sentence started with… all of us/me did. ^_^
As a bisexual man, if I had my consciousness transplanted into a woman for any reason, due to any situation where I was not in full control and making this choice simply for the fact that I wanted it to happen, I would probably elect to spend some time in that body to experience a different existence. I am quite big into virtual reality’s future possibilities and would probably view it in a similar fashion to a full dive VR experience if I knew there was the distinct probability of getting my own body back. Who knows, perhaps I may even decide I would keep that body because I prefer life through it. My biggest hurdle in imagining myself in such a spot is how I would deal with having completely different genitalia. I know the classic trope is that the man would be highly obsessive and vulgar about the new body, but I’m wondering if I would want to simply explore the world more than my own body. However, I do feel like there would be some of that as well, since, let’s be real for a moment, I believe most anyone would do the same if suddenly given a working body of the opposite sex.
Even if consciousness and identity are illusions, I don't think discovering this would cause an entity to "just shut off".
I think a major theme (or maybe the major theme) in Buddhism and maybe Hinduism is the idea that identity doesn't really refer to anything real, except perhaps that the entire universe is one whole by definition: The distinction between self and other is an illusion.
I really don't think personality is the sum of experiences. Current cognition architecture, which might be said to include memories but also includes a lot more, might be an even more important part of that, a thought with some weird implications of it's own.
felons not getting a vote is probably one of America's largest embarrassing features
There was a good episode of star trek voyager that comes to mind. Where a violent thought of a crew member is linked to a nearby man savagely killing another in broad daylight. She was to be punished for it, as in their race thought is as bad as action. There was also a black market in criminal thoughts. A good episode, and an interesting idea. I suppose that in most real world legal systems, the 'statute of limitations' exists partially because it is deemed that a person will have sufficiently changed since committing the crime that they are no longer the same person. Interesting to ponder regardless.
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memory stays your own but transfer to another person it becomes new experience memory for them. For my own memory goes to the depth of my soul experience. There for another person who is given my memory will experience them as their own ,unique with their soul signature.
Issac, have you ever tried meditation? Might lead to some fascinating thoughts on this subject 😉
"Might become taboo to use other people's memories" like in Blade Runner 2049 when Anna Skelline tells K that using real memories in replicants is illegal, so they have to manufacture them.
Questions like this also affect multiples, or people with tulpas. Ignoring whether or not you believe that it's a thing that exists, as though it were a sci-fi hypothetical.
This is why I think the transporters in Star Trek are terrifying.
The transporter shreds you on teh atomic level. Then takes those atoms and reassembles them some ware else. I'm pretty sure the machine does not put every atom back in the exact same place. Nor do I think the newly assembled person is using all of the original atoms. I'm pretty sure the transporter has a reservoir of elements to fill in any mistakes made in the initial disassembly. The damn thing killed you and made a copy. If I take a soda can, melted it down, and molded it back into another soda can, is it the same can?
I doubt there for I am. But I doubt it.
13:17 Hi, Chiku Red, Chiku Yellow, and Chiku Green! (waves)
(this'll make sense if you read the book I'm referencing, or look it up. :P)
anyone see that new tv series "Upload" on Amazon?
You make a physical copy and copy the intelligence, it's not the same person. You still die. A break in conciousness (sleep) is not an end to conciousness and a second one copied.
The woman in man's body is a male once her DNA has assimilated into male DNA.
If you download a person's memory of a math class and they comprehend all the information (ergo you do), you're still you.
If you commit a crime, then actively cover up the crime by erasing your memories, you show intent, let alone the forced memories. Nearly every character in Altered Carbon is guilty of "mind rape."
Jessica is the same person she was as a child, just with more perspective. A hive mind or merge is the death of a person and creation of another.
Memory of a crime doesn't make you guilty of commiting it anymore than seeing a video. Having memory of an accomplishment doesn't mean you accomplished it anymore than being related to someone makes you special.
This is so cool!