What's on Your Mind
05-30-2014, 09:38 AM
a thought experiment that I did in class . you go hiking in the swamp and is struck and killed by a lightning bolt. At the same time, nearby in the swamp another lightning bolt spontaneously rearranges a bunch of molecules such that, entirely by coincidence, they take on exactly the same form that your body had at the moment of your death.
This being, whom we call "Swampman," has, of course, a brain which is structurally identical to that which you had, and will thus, presumably, behave exactly as you would have. He will walk out of the swamp, return to your life, and write the same essays you would have written; he will interact like an amicable person with all of your friends and family, and so forth. So what makes you different from the swamp man?
It's pretty fun to think about in your free time.
This being, whom we call "Swampman," has, of course, a brain which is structurally identical to that which you had, and will thus, presumably, behave exactly as you would have. He will walk out of the swamp, return to your life, and write the same essays you would have written; he will interact like an amicable person with all of your friends and family, and so forth. So what makes you different from the swamp man?
It's pretty fun to think about in your free time.
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