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I think the latter would be like Hugh Jackman in THE PRESTIGE - suddenly there are two of you, rather than you jumping your mind into another body.
But both of them are you. What happens to you after the fact doesn't make one more real than the other, so how do you determine which is the original? That was central to The Prestige -- was the "original" teleported, and a copy was created where the original had been, or was a copy created some distance away? There's no way to tell.
So new body, equals different person.
Where do organ transplants fall for you? I mean, beyond horror films or Angel the Series episodes where clearly the evil resides in the bits.
[edit: I fall in the line of thinking where *you* are basically only located in your brain and the rest is just muscle memory.]
I fall in the line of thinking where *you* are basically only located in your brain and the rest is just muscle memory.
What if, and this has nothing to do with Dollhouse, an exact copy of the brain is made. Can you duplicate the self that way?
an exact copy of the brain is made. Can you duplicate the self that way?
Twins? Not exact in experience but pretty close (generally), and genetically exact. Yet, quite different.
Twins? Not exact in experience but pretty close (generally), and genetically exact. Yet, quite different.
but they do not have the exact same experiences. similar, but not exact.
::ponders::
Hmmm, no. I don't think so. I think I used brain earlier as a shorthand (in my own mind, as well) for "brain + consciousness = person."
So, I don't think that an exact copy of the brain would duplicate the self. I think duplicating self requires the consciousness. And while I don't think that consciousness is in any organ beyond the brain, I don't know if it is only in the brain.
Hmmm, things to think about.
If you make a precise physical duplicate of me and then record me and imprint it, where am I?
but they do not have the exact same experiences. similar, but not exact.
Most identical twins that I have known are just that - similar, but not exact(ly the same.) Even physically. I have twin uncles and one is slightly taller. Guess he had better nutrition / calcium.
The new you thinks she is you. If the old you is there you think you are you, but you don't think the new you is you. All your friends think "two itas! Awesome".
I think we're in split Crichton territory on Farscape for the duplicable self.