• Stamets@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Well consciousness is just chemical and electrical impulses. If you manage to re-create everything down to the molecule in the right area then you could completely rebuild the consciousness. Also means you’d be able to completely manipulate memories, experiences, basically anything held in the brain. Provided you had an intense enough neural mapping and deep enough understanding of the human brain to accomplish that. Luckily in the Trek universe, at least at the time of the 24th/25th century, that isn’t possible.

    • Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Also means you’d be able to completely manipulate memories, experiences, basically anything held in the brain.

      That’s assuming you know which exact parts do exactly what. Kinda like an encrypted zip file versus an unencrypted one.

      You edit whatever set of bits/bytes you want in both, but only in one of them will you actually know whats going on.

    • cheery_coffee@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      But we do know there’s quantum weirdness to the universe, so I personally think you would need more than just a molecular copy.

      It’s really the question of why am I the brain in this body? Why do I perceive existence, and why isn’t it just a sequence of reactions in a brain which can adapt to highly complex phenomenon.