The inner identity: consciousness, genetics, and the search for a soul
After reading a variety of fascinating articles about post humanism and the possibility of uploading, I came upon a question. Although the philosophy of personal identity asks similar questions to the ones I will be asking, I feel mine put a new perspective on the issue. First of all, you know that you existed your whole life, you are an individual person. Let's say when you die thier is no afterlife, for this article's sake. Proponents of post-humanism declare that a person can be basically resurrected after they die with all of their experiences and genetics intact. So let's go back to death, when the person dies their consciousness ends forever. Now, once supposedly resurected is this really the same person? If you were to change a single genetic or experience, would the person who died really be being ressurected, or would it be a near clone, an entirely different person? I would love comments and insights on this issue.
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