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Reason :: I, Cyborg
I was recently listening to a podcast called "Quirks and quarks" by CBC One radio. Something that a guest was telling on show caught my attention. He was saying something like this, "Every moment of our existence we are losing some cells in our bodies. Its a constant process in the body that dead cells are replaced by new ones. You probably have no cell in your body that you started out with 20 years ago. But you still feel the same person. Amazing, isn't it?"
It occurred to me that it wasn't without reason that you still feel the same person. There is one kind of cell in the body that isn't replaced when it dies: brain cell. All your life the only brain cells you will have are the ones you started your life with. I then tried combining two of these. There was only one conclusion I could draw, whatever I thought was me was nothing more than the gray matter sitting snugly in my skull. Whoa! Does that mean I can replace all of my body parts (other than, of course, the brain) with functionally equivalent mechanical parts? Does that mean I could have reinforced titanium arms that can punch through concrete walls with ease? Would I still feel me with all those upgrades?
Just when I am beginning to think of all the upgrades that I would like to have I am interrupted with an afterthought. If I were to be cloned and my clone was to have the my brain copied, the clone would feel like me... but would he BE me?
Created on 27th March 2005
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