Re: physics of uploading minds.

From: Heartland (velvethum@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Oct 29 2005 - 10:22:27 MDT


> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 "Phillip Huggan" Wrote:
>
>> One's personal identity cannot float around
>> to any space-time coordinates it pleases.
>
> Asking where consciousness exists is a little like asking when is green.
> If it even has a meaningful answer I'd say consciousness is where the
> sense organs are focused on, or the place it's thinking about; I'm
> certainly not conscious of being inside a dome made of bone.

Consciousness is a product of mind. Minds exist inside brains which are
physical objects whose locations can be described in terms of space-time
coordinates. Consciousness is simply where the brain is.

Slawomir



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