‘What would happen if we could arrange atoms one by one the way we want them?’ -Feynman
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me: don’t you think this quote is pure romance? this is how I would propose to someone I think uber driver: no..
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I've thought about this a few times during discussions about consciousness. Like you could theoretically reassemble a human from atoms but would it still be a living, breathing, thinking being? Are we just atoms in a certain configuration or is there another ingredient?
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David Chalmers (& many before him) asks a similar question wrt replacing neurons w functionally equivalent machines. Still fully functioning human? equally conscious? In 'fading qualia' he asks what might happen if you replace them slowly, one by one, http://consc.net/papers/qualia.html …
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