Originally posted by JimL
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If you could record a mind and upload it to a computer and run it as a program, it would think and be self-aware and believe itself to be the same person it was uploaded from. How? They are still trying to work it out but many scientists believe it can be done eventually.
So if a mind could exist without a brain, then the brain is not the mind. Even if the brain generates the mind, the mind is more than just the substrate it exists upon. Like the lightbulb example.
I am not even talking spiritual here, JimL, merely that the mental construct we call a person's mind is more than just random firing of neurons. It is a self-aware thing in itself and can even control the firing of the neurons to move the body, recall memories, change what it wants to think about, etc.
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