mooseburger

I don't actually believe technology can save us, don't find the techno-utopias concocted by sci-fi authors to actually be utopias, and don't accept the thesis that we have progressed because we're better at satisfying bodily appetites to be compelling.

> would the concept of me and you as separate identities actually mean anything to us anymore?

Clearly yes. If your body is destroyed, I will stop experiencing your thoughts and your senses, and vice versa.

> You anyway go to sleep each night and awaken after a discontinuity. Why would this be significantly different?

I'm more interested in why it would be the same. As it stands, there is no account of what is the thing that persists through deep sleep, or more broadly, of why there is sentience to begin with. I'm perfectly ok with conjecturing that sentience is not physical, given that we can't observe it, like we can with the physical. And I don't expect we will find some physics redefining discovery in the brain that will allow us to see us. Some philosophers hold that the more interesting question is why do neuroscientific accounts of the brain seem insufficient to us, but at that point the jig's up, you're doing philosophy and not science. Which is the problem of mind uploading, there's no scientific surety to it, believing in it will be conditional on not thinking too much about it, or on taking the position that "the philosophy is settled!".

> What does it add? Why does it suggest itself?

What do you think it does? No idea where you're going with this.

Getting Epstein "suicide" vibes from this.

Virtue signaling.

Yeah, that was interesting. Apparently even being a female POC doesn't allow you to blaspheme against the nameless faith. It has evolved.

Regarding Garcia Martinez, I am still surprised "straight male" is such a disadvantage that being POC doesn't buy enough oppression points to allow you to criticize white women. Then again, maybe it's more that being Hispanic specifically isn't enough. I have a hard time imagining a black man getting fired for the same comments.

That isn't about grammar. Presumably, this "I" is real. Can you find it in the world? If you say it's the brain, there's only elementary particles there, same as everything else. We see no such "I" there. So where is this "I"?