Theseus's trolly problem:

A trolly is careering down a track. Ahead of it lies a human, bound to the track. You can replace one part of the human at a time with newly-synthesised body parts, and reconstruct the original human away from the track. You do so.

Have you saved a life or ended one?

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Do you know the #Theseus’s #paradox?

The #Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus’s paradox, is a paradox that raises a question of #identity – whether an object which has had all its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object. The paradox is most notably recorded by #Plutarch in #Life of Theseus from the late 1st century.

Plutarch asked whether a ship which was restored by replacing all and every of its wooden parts, remained the same ship?

Please imagine in the near future it would be possible to simulate a complete human #brain with a #computer. Furthermore, it would be possible to scan any human brain and accurately transfer the state into the simulation.

What would this #simulation be? A copy of one's own #mind or would one be this copy?

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