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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Functional Integration in the Environment

If we could copy you perfectly, wouldn't it have to be just a matter of the functional and structural integration of the system at any time point? But obviously this new thing, this new person, as a matter of its history, has not grown up as an integrated system in the midst of an environment. It was just cobbled together one second ago by little nanobots out of fundamental elements. Of course it's then going to diverge and start to inhabit a distinct different experience of selfhood.

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