We first need to define what the "you" is. Can scientist make a copy of "You" or just a simiar or identical body structure and are they the same thing or not?
"There's no "you" appart from your neural conections. If someone could manage to reassemble each and all of your neural conections 100 years after you pass away, that person would feel the same sense of continued existence that you feel each morning when you wake up I think the problem arises when the concept of "you" is contemplated in a prospective way; in my opinion, it only makes sense in a retrospective way."
Joseph Joachim this statment is based on too many asumptions"There's no "you" appart from your neural conections"
If anyone here thinks he can explain conciousness then please tell me first how I see.
Sleepy, you said: this statment is based on too many asumptions"There's no "you" appart from your neural conections".
Actually, my statement is based on only one assumption: that all thaught processes take place in the brain. Most people will agree with that, except those who were taught until not too long ago that the literal heart was the source of human feelings - guess whom?
I do admit, though, that neuroscience has only a very faint idea of how the brain actually works, and what conscience really is (if it really is something at all).
It turns out that I'm just reading a very interesting book on the topic (which also deals with the problem of vision you ask for): "How the mind works" by Steven Pinker. Highly recommendable.
