>>13200968Reductionism and materialism are indeed a poison to science.
By making every question manageable and down to earth you lose the ability to ask big questions and a great deal of inspiration.
>>13201657Human is a mortal being. By craving immortality you throw away your humanity and basically commit suicide, since you are no longer the ship of theseus.
Envision a world of cyborgs, where memories are kept on hard drives, can be copied and shared, a consciousness may inhabit many different bodies and travel via fibers, your information input is practically unlimited as well as processing power.
That is not human at all. It is smt omniscient, omnipresent. Call me old fashioned, but I prefer being a conflicted meatbag. I dont mind dying if the alternative is losing yourself.
>>13201728> but its still the same brainSimilar but never the same. Your mind is a ship of theseus. You gain new memories, lose others. Some neurons grow, other die. Glial liquid accumulates compounds then flushes em down during sleep.
The sameness is an illusion as much as self is an illusion.
> twins are a same personYou still dont get it. Self does not exist for more than 1 person. One twin may vonsider the other to be a part of himself. The second twin may have your pov on this situation and consider himself a separate entity. Doesnt matter.
Self != single agency
See a hive. It acts as a single agent, it is composed of many codependent agents. A hive has no self, but each ant has a self. And for each ant the self includes both him and every other ant in the colony.
