Metaphysics anyone?

[LutiChris]

Now, I'm fairly confident that a person will retain his own sense of consciousness throughout his life whenever he wakes up from sleep etc. If consciousness is a product of the brain, then if the brain is suddenly destroyed and then replaced with a clone, then wouldn't the original conscience be lost while the clone is an entirely new conscience? At the same time, our body constantly undergoes cell division to replace lost cells, and within 7-10 years all our old cells have been replaced, yet we still retain the same conscience. Doesn't this raise the question of what conscience really is? Is it possible to retain this conscience and thus live forever in human terms?

awww man. consciousness! this topic is getting deep so fast :P

I'm not sure if you played the game Wolfenstein but there is a certain scene which i love from Tekla

perhaps conscience is really just an illusion to facilitate the invisible logic that goes behind our every action? ... it seems to make this whole thing irrelevant as you said.

i like this question the most since it feels like that may be the case yet its kinda scary to come to terms with. in which case everything else i said about preserving consciousness gets thrown outside the window. AI's at some point will beat the the real turing test proving they can be as complicated as our biological process and our compassion to understand and emulate human behavior, morality, humor, etc.

This illusion of life is so fascinating. I feel like we often don't think that character's in a film or reading a fictional book exist because they are merely products of our creation. Even though it's not the same ball park as AI creation i like the notion that our minds conceive this illusion that the characters exists in our minds. Since we can't prove anything exists we have to be pragmatic so that we don't go insane with this provoking thought. The state of living - whatever that means at this point i don't know- is all in our heads and we'll continue to perceive it in that way. asdgjhkl same thing with metaphysical reality

If there is a metaphysical reality, then there is the possibility of a philosophical zombie - a being that has no soul, yet is physically exactly the same and acts exactly the same in response to pain even if it doesn't actually experience pain. Of course, this raises even more questions and I'm not sure how I can dwell into it.

i would think that one of its senses (touch) is not fully functional or they choose to ignore pain in pursuit of their food for whatever irrational reason.

i encourage everyone to talk about their thoughts on being, existence and reality! it's fun!