I think the neuroscience is greatly simplified in this paper. Instead, all the problems you list seem to assume that there are still “two people” in there, as if the worst that could happen is some sort of breakdown in negotiations. You don’t seem to deal convincingly with the neurological hurdles, from damage to existing neural structures caused by inevitable errors in assigning “analogous” neurons to the psychological (not like “I feel sad,” but like “schizophrenia”) aftereffects of having your brain rewired and then cut up again.
This should possibly be made more explicit, but those things are supposed to be covered by the “general integration difficulties” part in the problem section. I’ll expand on it.
The paper isn’t really attempting to be a conclusive knock-down argument that demonstrates for certain how mind coalescence could be achieved. It’s mostly just introducing the idea and establishing that this should be possible in principle. The actual gritty details of the implementation are for later work to deal with.
I think the neuroscience is greatly simplified in this paper. Instead, all the problems you list seem to assume that there are still “two people” in there, as if the worst that could happen is some sort of breakdown in negotiations. You don’t seem to deal convincingly with the neurological hurdles, from damage to existing neural structures caused by inevitable errors in assigning “analogous” neurons to the psychological (not like “I feel sad,” but like “schizophrenia”) aftereffects of having your brain rewired and then cut up again.
This should possibly be made more explicit, but those things are supposed to be covered by the “general integration difficulties” part in the problem section. I’ll expand on it.
The paper isn’t really attempting to be a conclusive knock-down argument that demonstrates for certain how mind coalescence could be achieved. It’s mostly just introducing the idea and establishing that this should be possible in principle. The actual gritty details of the implementation are for later work to deal with.