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And then Marvin Minsky asked: what if you substitute one cell at a time with an exactly functioning electronic duplicate? At what point does this shift occur?



Related to that are Searle's "Chinese Room" argument and the question of "Mind uploading" (can you up/download mental states): https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/#ChinRoomArg...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading and Chapter 8 about Mind Uploading in https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alfredo-Pereira-Junior/...

The related Reddit conversation https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/2ew9i2/would_it...


Sounds like an experimental question. Maybe 99%, maybe 1%, maybe never.

Can you suggest another way to answer your question other than performing an experiment? Can you describe how to perform an experiment to answer your question?

Would you agree to be the subject of such an experiment?




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