RE: ::scr long waffley post about consciousness

[Dan Argent <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Since there's no single part of you that contains your soul, and I've
> just taken part of you and replaced it with something else, and you
> can't tell the difference, it seems only logical that there's as much 
> of your soul in that black box than there was in the neuron that I
> took out of your head.
> 
> The only way that could be true is if everything shared the same
> soul to begin with.
>

Taking the super-strong AI, connectionist idea, it's not the physical
instantiation
of the data that matters, rather the system represented by the physical
aspect.
i.e. it doesn't matter how many atoms / neurons / whole slices of brain I
replace, 
as long as the structure is retained..