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Originally Posted by zen_tom
the me that resides inside my brain would not be able to continue to reside there if my brain was ripped apart.
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You've got a "me" in there? I suppose that your brain gets visual information from the eyes and projects it onto a metaphorical cinema screen somewhere in your brain, and presents it to this "me". Your ears do something similar with sound. I wonder....what happens when the "me" looks at the cinema screen? I imagine it takes in the visual information, which is then digested and rearranged, and then...uh...presented to your "me's me"? (and in turn to your "me's me's me"?).
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If you kill someone in a way that doesn't affect their brain, they are still dead, and usually will remain so for some time. Could re-stimulating the dead brain in some way cause it to come back to life? And if so, would it be the same individual that came back?
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Sure, why not? Unless you believe in such things as "soul's" which are a necessary ingredient for life, and "leave" the body at the moment of death. I don't imagine such a thing could ever be done in reality (much too complex), but if it could, then I don't see why this body that is up and walking around and talking and eating (and all the rest), would not be considered to be alive, and if it's not Good Ole Jimmy, then
who is he?
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If the opposite were true, and the machine created a copy of you. Would you be aware of two sets of images from your now 4 eyes, i.e. would you be aware of everything your twin was aware of?
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You don't have four eyes. You have two. You are only aware of what can be seen with your pair of eyes. As it happens, there is someone walking around who looks exactly like you and happens to share your past. But
he of course is the clone, not you. As it happens, naturally enough, he believes that
you are the clone, and he is the original. See my chess analogy above to see why the distinction is meaningless and based on a false view of a "self".