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AMA | November 2021

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

CHAPTER

Why Am I Me?

i think that the question, why am i me? makes no sense whatsoever. I can imagine what it would be like if a person like me were somehow transported into the body of sir isaac newton but basically with my own memories intact. So i just think you should unask these kinds of questions. Also, i've zero trouble imagining that artificial intelligence could make the same kind of mistakes philosophically that we human beings make. The very, very short answer is that i'm all for it, censorship on social media. But that's only because, of course, everyone is for censorship on socialmedia in the broadest possible sense.

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