>>13063026>if a consciousness emerged from a certain structure of exact components couldn't it happen again where that exact conscious re-merges after disassembly and re-assemblyOf course... your use of the word "exact" might be ambiguous here.
>with the same parts in the same configuration?Why would the same parts be required? This implies a particular consciousness is metaphysical.
If nano robots surgically replaced each of your brain neurons one at a time over the course of a year with another nano robot that perfectly mimics the function of each neuron would it still be your same consciousness when there are no biological neurons left? I think it would be the same. There's probably thousands of brain cells dying each day in everyone's heads and it doesn't affect your consciousness in any real sense. Replacing them with a functionally equivalent robo cell shouldn't make a difference either.
Even crazier, what if all those replaced biological neuron cells were reassembled and your brain was jump started again. Which conscious would be "yours"?? The nanobot brain that never had an interruption in consciousness or your original biological brain that had a pause? Brains can have pauses. When you are in a coma your brain pauses. When your brain exits the comatose state does it now have a different consciousness and the prior one is gone forever?
