In any case, every time I’ve flipped the switch so far, nothing has Both stories castĭoubt on whether the narrator is the brain or the backup and both end Trapped observer in a body the brain is controling. Both stories have that happen and the backup finds itself a The two would irrevocably diverge into different minds from that That the backup was controling the body would be shattered and that Observer being able to tell any difference.īoth stories recognize that if there were an instant's differenceīetween the backup's thoughts and the brain's thoughts, the illusion Switch from one to another without the brain, the backup, or any
The body is responding to the backup's commands, and that you could Sensory input so that the backup thinks it is the person and thinks This may be an essay by Daniel Dennett, called "Where Am I", discussed here, and collected in The Mind's I (1981): it is quite similar to Egan's Learning to Be Me.īoth stories imagine that you could produce a "backup" of someone'sīrain by having a computer model of the brain receiving all the same
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