>>12344140That's an interesting concept and reminds me of this analogy: If you repair a ship to the point of replacing all it's parts one by one, over time, is it still the same ship?
I think visualizing porting the brain to be the equivalent of swapping a PC's plastic case to a metal one works well. The computation components are 'you' and the hard drive is your memories / thoughts. You being 'conscious' is an instance, the computer is turned on, and running 'you' programs and accessing memories, thoughts, ect. But the moment the power is completely turned off or unplugged, your instance is gone and thus, your 'conscious'. If you were to turn it on again it would be like nothing changed, the parts are the same, hard drive intact, yet you, the instance, are now gone forever.
But in saying that, would it truly be a seamless stream of consciousness being ported? Or would it be like turning off the pc to move the parts, because if you were careful you could do it without tripping the power.
