For claiming that you are what your brain does, and the (implied) correlation that another identical brain would therefore continue to manifest an identical experience. All of this is entirely conjectural, we have no evidence one way or another.
Your caveat that you must be cut and pasted and not copied doesn’t help your argument, in fact it does the opposite, because it is not theoretically impossible that two identical versions of “you” could exist concurrently.
That is afaik our current best guess at what consciousness is. If you don’t accept that model as true at least for the moment, I don’t know what we’re talking about.
What you’re saying isn’t the ‘current best guess’ though, it’s a fringe theory which relies on some incredibly speculative concepts with no evidence to back them up (i.e. the assertion that, if you created another brain with the exact same configuration as your current brain then, your conscious experience would automatically transfer over to it. We have absolutely no reason to believe this is true, whereas the concept that the destruction of your brain results in your death is well supported by the available evidence).
The current best guess about what consciousness is is that it’s what the brain does, the processes happening in the brain, full stop. Of course nobody knows what would happen if one were to “transport”/beam/teleport a brain and the surrounding human because we know no mechanism to do that. In the OP’s hypothetical scenario where we have found a technological mechanism to teleport living beings, if said current best guess approaches reality, I think it’s at least a valid hypothesis that you’d also copy the contained consciousness (ie the processes happening in the brain) and it would continue on as before because what you’re transporting is physical matter, probably as energy. That’s what I’m saying.
For claiming that you are what your brain does, and the (implied) correlation that another identical brain would therefore continue to manifest an identical experience. All of this is entirely conjectural, we have no evidence one way or another.
Your caveat that you must be cut and pasted and not copied doesn’t help your argument, in fact it does the opposite, because it is not theoretically impossible that two identical versions of “you” could exist concurrently.
That is afaik our current best guess at what consciousness is. If you don’t accept that model as true at least for the moment, I don’t know what we’re talking about.
We don’t know what consciousness is, that’s my point. It’s called ‘the hard problem of consciousness’ for a reason, there is no consensus.
That’s why I said current best guess. If we have no idea at all, this entire discussion is useless and OP should delete.
What you’re saying isn’t the ‘current best guess’ though, it’s a fringe theory which relies on some incredibly speculative concepts with no evidence to back them up (i.e. the assertion that, if you created another brain with the exact same configuration as your current brain then, your conscious experience would automatically transfer over to it. We have absolutely no reason to believe this is true, whereas the concept that the destruction of your brain results in your death is well supported by the available evidence).
The current best guess about what consciousness is is that it’s what the brain does, the processes happening in the brain, full stop. Of course nobody knows what would happen if one were to “transport”/beam/teleport a brain and the surrounding human because we know no mechanism to do that. In the OP’s hypothetical scenario where we have found a technological mechanism to teleport living beings, if said current best guess approaches reality, I think it’s at least a valid hypothesis that you’d also copy the contained consciousness (ie the processes happening in the brain) and it would continue on as before because what you’re transporting is physical matter, probably as energy. That’s what I’m saying.