Quote Originally Posted by boostNslide
Ive always wondered about that stuff...

If we make a computer that can carry out all the functions of a brain and then someone gets brain cancer to a point where they are gonna die. Then we have a device that can copy everything from thier brain to this device that replciates the brain, and then do a transplant. Ok sounds good right? But its just a copy... maybe that person would seem to me you and everyone they know to be the same person. But wouldnt the original person be dead? Like, the copy would think they are still alive? I dont know if I really beleive in souls, but it just seemed if this was ever possible, the real person would still be dead, but there would be no way we could know.
there has been soooo mch good philosophical work done on this.
LIke so incredibly good that I woke up at 9 am to go to class just to listen.

I think Shoemaker was the philosopher that did alot of good work on it.