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Transmigration (Neural Replacement) Fallacy.
Brent Allsop
Saturday, 16 August 2008 22:14 UTC
David Chalmers argued for his “Principle of organizational invariance” theory as described in this camp as a resolution to the hard problem.
This argument is built around what Hans Moravec calls “Transmigration” which is a one at a time neural replacement thought experiment I’m sure many of you are very familiar with.
I believe the way this transmigration argument is used like this is a fallacy, and that it simply reveals ignorance about the way a unified world of consciousness works or how we could be consciously aware of things. We’ve created a camp to describe this fallacy here:
http://canonizer.com/topic.asp/79/2
The goal of this Transmigration topic in this open survey wiki system is to collaboratively develop, concisely state, and quantitatively measure all theories and beliefs about transmigration. If you are interested at all in this transmigration topic, have any thoughts or beliefs, and especially if you agree that it is a fallacy, or if you don’t, we would love to get your beliefs ‘canonized’ and counted, and have you contribute.
If what you believe isn’t there, please help out everyone that shares your beliefs by getting a camp started representing such. And, remember, this is a wiki system, so you don’t have to produce a polished, peer reviewed statement before you can submit your thought as a contribution. Just get the idea started, with spelling mistakes and all, so that everyone that shares your thoughts can help continually develop the idea and the concise description of such. All while quantitatively measuring how much consensus there turns out to be supporting your idea.
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Dear Brent,
Just a brief comment. In my single neuron consciousness model the neural replacement paradox does not arise. Each time you lose a neuron to silicon you lose a copy of consciousness. It really does make things easier!
Jo
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