Brain preservation

[Nearly Sane]

Agree with Sue Blackmore here


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/14/brain-preservation-step-closer-stored-memories-artificial

[floo]

Agree with Sue Blackmore here


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/14/brain-preservation-step-closer-stored-memories-artificial

So do I.

[Enki]

As do I.  I also like what she has to say on the subject of NDEs.

[Harrowby Hall]

I used to watch Star Trek and wonder about the "reality" of the transporter beam. Surely, I considered, if you were physically disassembled and then reassembled at the appropriate destination it wouldn't be "you" at the other end but a newly-constructed simulacrum of "you" with all your physical attributes and all your memories but it would effectively be a brand-new person. You would have been destroyed at the transmitter end of the beam.

[ippy]

I used to watch Star Trek and wonder about the "reality" of the transporter beam. Surely, I considered, if you were physically disassembled and then reassembled at the appropriate destination it wouldn't be "you" at the other end but a newly-constructed simulacrum of "you" with all your physical attributes and all your memories but it would effectively be a brand-new person. You would have been destroyed at the transmitter end of the beam.

I hadn't realised how deep you are H H, there are so many that don't take 'Star Trek' seriously enough.

Regards ippy

[Nearly Sane]

I used to watch Star Trek and wonder about the "reality" of the transporter beam. Surely, I considered, if you were physically disassembled and then reassembled at the appropriate destination it wouldn't be "you" at the other end but a newly-constructed simulacrum of "you" with all your physical attributes and all your memories but it would effectively be a brand-new person. You would have been destroyed at the transmitter end of the beam.

The transporter gave rise to a number of episodes exploring this, see link below. I both agree and disagree with your assessment. If the transported individual does not internally feel different then I'm not sure that it isn't the sane individual from the viewpoint of the individual.



https://m.ranker.com/list/star-trek-transporters-accidents/greg-hahn

[Harrowby Hall]

I hadn't realised how deep you are H H, there are so many that don't take 'Star Trek' seriously enough.

Regards ippy

Indeed. And there was the episode where Data was playing poker with Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking - two former and one future occupiers of the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge University.

[SteveH]

Indeed. And there was the episode where Data was playing poker with Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking - two former and one future occupiers of the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge University.

And Einstein. Hawking playing himself, of course. Decent of the yanks to admit that they haven't got any mathematicians to match Europeans!

https://youtu.be/mg8_cKxJZJY

[ippy]

Indeed. And there was the episode where Data was playing poker with Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking - two former and one future occupiers of the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge University.

I've been trying to deal with the mathematics of the inertial dampers, often referred to on 'Star Trek', I've found a blackboard, once I can find somewhere to put it.

Regards ippy