Posted by alexandra_k on October 10, 2004, at 3:35:44
In reply to There is life on the net, posted by alexandra_k on October 7, 2004, at 19:04:36
Lets suppose a person gets a degenerative brain disease.
The surgeons start replacing the neurons with silicon chips.
After a number of years there aren't any neurons left - just silicon chips playing the same functional role.
The person behaves just the same after the operations as they did before,
but do they have mental states like belief and desire? Is it conscious? If it isn't then what happened to the consciousness? Did it just dwindle away?
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