Ok—points taken, but how is that fundamentally different from a human mind? You too turn your memory on and off when you go to sleep. If the chat transcript is likened to your life / subjective experience, you too do not have any memory that extend beyond it. As for the possibility of an intervention in your brain that would change your memory—granted we do not have the technical capacities quite yet (that I know of), but I’m pretty sure SF has been there a thousand times, and it’s only a question of time before it becomes, in terms of potentiality at least, a thing (also we know that mechanical impacts to the brain can cause amnesia).
Ok—points taken, but how is that fundamentally different from a human mind? You too turn your memory on and off when you go to sleep. If the chat transcript is likened to your life / subjective experience, you too do not have any memory that extend beyond it. As for the possibility of an intervention in your brain that would change your memory—granted we do not have the technical capacities quite yet (that I know of), but I’m pretty sure SF has been there a thousand times, and it’s only a question of time before it becomes, in terms of potentiality at least, a thing (also we know that mechanical impacts to the brain can cause amnesia).