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theadvancedapes · 3992 days ago · link · · parent · post: Virtual afterlives will transform humanity
I think the author made a fair statement. I think your intelligence, emotions, goal-directedness, self-awareness, consciousness, etc are all emergent from the distributed, parallel activity of neurons within the brain and nervous system. Of course this system exists within a larger system of "non-neuronal" cellular material, and that larger system my impact/influence the important properties of your brain, but fundamentally, I think you are you brain patterns. If there were strong evidence to the contrary I'd be interested to hear/read it.