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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6688241" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>That seems less plausible than Morrus' exact duplicate teleporter. </p><p></p><p>This picture assumes a sort of static picture of the brain - that once it is wired up, it is set, and the wiring is what matters. But, brains retain some level of plasticity for your entire life. The rate at which you rewire it drops over time, but within our current lifespans, it never completely stops. So, unless that copy and rewiring happens at the moment of death, the clone won't have the same brain structure as the original. In addition, significant portions of your brain chemistry are dependent on development as you age, rather than on the state of interconnection at the current moment. This can lead to differences in attitudes and behavior, even with the exact same memory.</p><p></p><p>"If we can perfectly duplicate a human," questions are thus a little shaky.</p><p></p><p>Now, if you go to an example of artificial intelligence that has been granted personhood, where the corpus is a machine, and the mind is a program, such that copy to a known level of fidelity is plausible, then we have issues <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 6688241, member: 177"] That seems less plausible than Morrus' exact duplicate teleporter. This picture assumes a sort of static picture of the brain - that once it is wired up, it is set, and the wiring is what matters. But, brains retain some level of plasticity for your entire life. The rate at which you rewire it drops over time, but within our current lifespans, it never completely stops. So, unless that copy and rewiring happens at the moment of death, the clone won't have the same brain structure as the original. In addition, significant portions of your brain chemistry are dependent on development as you age, rather than on the state of interconnection at the current moment. This can lead to differences in attitudes and behavior, even with the exact same memory. "If we can perfectly duplicate a human," questions are thus a little shaky. Now, if you go to an example of artificial intelligence that has been granted personhood, where the corpus is a machine, and the mind is a program, such that copy to a known level of fidelity is plausible, then we have issues :) [/QUOTE]
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