That might be true, but the fact remains that one person is still completely dependent on and consequently bound to one neural substrate, and the support system for said neural substrate, which permits us (for now) to tie a person’s personality to their distinct ‘body’.
This remains true even in the spectrum of cases when multiple personalities or possibility even people (appear to) inhabit or share the same neural substrate.
If the substrate is disrupted, the indivdual(s) are destroyed.
This will not always be the case, once technology progresses to such an extent that synthetic and digital persons living in distributed neural substrates become first possible at all and then commonplace in society, the the above statement will be false and a society wide identity crisis will emerge for those not born into the new status quo.
We biological humans, with our antiquated instincts for people in single bodies will be old & regressive compared to the zeitgeist of society.
That might be true, but the fact remains that one person is still completely dependent on and consequently bound to one neural substrate, and the support system for said neural substrate, which permits us (for now) to tie a person’s personality to their distinct ‘body’.
This remains true even in the spectrum of cases when multiple personalities or possibility even people (appear to) inhabit or share the same neural substrate.
If the substrate is disrupted, the indivdual(s) are destroyed.
This will not always be the case, once technology progresses to such an extent that synthetic and digital persons living in distributed neural substrates become first possible at all and then commonplace in society, the the above statement will be false and a society wide identity crisis will emerge for those not born into the new status quo.
We biological humans, with our antiquated instincts for people in single bodies will be old & regressive compared to the zeitgeist of society.