Re:Human use of high-bandwidth wireless brain-computer inter...
by PartiallyTyped on Sunday April 04, 2021 @02:36PM
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> Now take it a step further. Death isn’t death. Like the paradox of rebuilding a ship one plank at a time, your mind stops existing in your body and occupies a collection of other bodies.
Douglas Hofstadter talks about this in "I am a Strange Loop" [1], but he argues that our 'soul fragments' as he calls them are a representation of ourselves in others. Depending on how large of a fragment they hold in our brain, we can perceive the world as they do, and think as the other person. They get to experience the world through us, in a sense, given that we 'allow them to'.
It is an interesting idea, and helps reconcile the death of our loved ones.
Douglas Hofstadter talks about this in "I am a Strange Loop" [1], but he argues that our 'soul fragments' as he calls them are a representation of ourselves in others. Depending on how large of a fragment they hold in our brain, we can perceive the world as they do, and think as the other person. They get to experience the world through us, in a sense, given that we 'allow them to'.
It is an interesting idea, and helps reconcile the death of our loved ones.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Am-Strange-Loop-Douglas-Hofstadter/dp...