Re: The role of consciousness

From: Matt Mahoney (matmahoney@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Apr 07 2008 - 17:53:23 MDT


--- John K Clark <johnkclark@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 "Matt Mahoney"
> > All I can say with certainty is that after I
> > upload, there will be something that claims
> > to be me that is realistic enough to fool
> > all of my friends and relatives.
>
> Forget uploading and electronic computers, right now at this very
> instant all you can say is that if you are lucky there will be something
> tomorrow that claims to be you that is realistic enough to fool all of
> your friends and relatives, and even fool you; exactly precisely like
> what happened yesterday.

Or perhaps there will be something tomorrow with a completely different set of
memories that will still fool itself and a different set of friends and
relatives that it knows, just like what happened today.

-- Matt Mahoney, matmahoney@yahoo.com



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