The brain and identity

[rollingstoned!]

If I arranged all my neurons exactly the same way as your's, would I be you?

 

[Bauer095]

no peeking!

 

[Quantum Perception]

There is no you to begin with; That is, if we think of the you as some kind of constant manifestation outside of a subjective cognitive phenomenon. You or "I" never is and never was.

 

[greenberryhaze]

Yes, till about 2 seconds later.

 

[Pythagoras]

No

- mind is more than mere neurons, there's the wholes issue of brain chemistry, genetics (I could be deaf and blind), notwithstanding that I am made of more than mind, I have a body, CNS etc that differ from yours.

 

[rollingstoned!]

No I mean if the PNS and CNS were arranged the same ways

 

[Pythagoras]

No I mean if the PNS and CNS were arranged the same ways

You'd be very close, but still lacking 'indescernability' in that you could not inhabit the same spatio-temporal location as I do. You don't get to the magic 'a=a' because you would be spatially discernable from me.

 

[Psyduck]

^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_of_indiscernibles

 

[Raw Evil]

Excellent link, Psyduck.

 

[Psyke]

On 33mg 2c-i i reached over to help my friend out of the passenger seat of a car.
He proceeded to exclaim "Whoa, am I you?"

He apparently thought in my voice for the rest of the trip and thought he was me for sure.
Temporary neuron displacement?
hey, i'm no gynecologist

 

[Dedbeet]

You're already me, in the sense of my existence (including these words here) being your perception. And there's never actually anything outside 'present perception' -- as the notion that there is something outside of/other than present perception, is present perception.