I didn’t say pure, I said purer. If you write your own legs, that’s a purer contest than running on muscles you don’t understand. If you rewrite your own mind, that’s a purer contest than thinking with neural circuits you don’t understand. You never made and can never make yourself from scratch, from nothing; but it’s possible that the brain you wield could be Truly Part Of You. The implications of which are not exactly straightforward, but I haven’t gotten to the section on introspection yet.
I didn’t say pure, I said purer. If you write your own legs, that’s a purer contest than running on muscles you don’t understand. If you rewrite your own mind, that’s a purer contest than thinking with neural circuits you don’t understand. You never made and can never make yourself from scratch, from nothing; but it’s possible that the brain you wield could be Truly Part Of You. The implications of which are not exactly straightforward, but I haven’t gotten to the section on introspection yet.