- cross-posted to:
- morewrite@awful.systems
- cross-posted to:
- morewrite@awful.systems
guy recently linked this essay, its old, but i don’t think its significantly wrong (despite gpt evangelists) also read weizenbaum, libs, for the other side of the coin
And people survive all of that stuff, and are still people. I really don’t understand what you’re getting at here.
I never implied that uploaded people wouldn’t be people. All I’m saying is that they’d be different people. It’s not like putting on new clothes.
I’m getting the impression that you would think they were a different person, and I would not, and that disagreement lies not in any measurable process but rather our personal beliefs.
I’m getting the impression than you think you only exist in your head, whereas I do not, and this is a material disagreement on the self.
The measurable difference is that my conception of the self includes the embodied self and the social self. I am, in part, my body. I am, in part, my place in society. I am, in part, my relationships.
There is a dialectical relationship between the internal world inside our heads and the real world outside of it. Narrowly focusing on the brain misses this nuance.