And Slaters Go Plop » brain replication http://damian.peterson.net.nz The Bloggery of Damian Peterson Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:01:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Thought Experiment #3 http://damian.peterson.net.nz/2008/07/31/thought-experiment-3/ http://damian.peterson.net.nz/2008/07/31/thought-experiment-3/#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:36:30 +0000 Damian http://damian.peterson.net.nz/?p=167 If a super-super-duper machine was able to scan the exact physical state of your entire brain and were to recreate your brain exactly as it is in another body would there then be two of “you”? Where would “you” be?

  • In the original
  • In both but branching from there
  • It’s impossible and always will be
  • The other would be a soulless zombie
  • Something else?
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