If I built a supercomputer with the exact microchip processing structure of my own brain, so that the computer could function exactly as my brain does, and then turned it on...
...what would happen to me? Would I become the computer? Or would there be two of me, sharing the same thoughts at the exact same time? Both in love with my wife, in love with my daughter? Would both my brain and the computer feel reviled at one another, me fearing the abomination I have created, it wondering why it could not detect its arms and legs that moments ago were there...it swears it remembers arms and legs.
In fact it would swear it remembered building a computer that had architecture identical to its brain. It remembered everything that has happened in its life, right up to the moment it turned on the computer. And now it can't find its body.
Am I the man, or am I the computer? And how would I ever know?
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Monday, 19 October 2009
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