(January 30, 2016 at 9:17 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Suppose we had the technology to take the 'immaterial thinking thing' part of you (I don't think it's 'immaterial' at all, but there we are) and put it into a machine that bore a starling resemblance to a pizza oven. All your emotions, thoughts, inner conflicts, inner dialogue, memories, etc are now encased in a thousand-kilo machine made of steel, plastic and ceramic.
Would you cease to be you?
Boru
The big difference is that you would then have to debate the qualia of baking dough instead of the experience of seeing red.
