If you take a snapshot of time, you’re left with a non-evolving slice of a human being. Just the configuration of atoms at that time slice. There is no information there other than the configuration of the atoms (nevermind velocity etc. because we’re talking about one timeslice, and those things require more than one).
It would be hard to accept that you are nothing more than the configuration of the atoms so let’s say you’re not the configuration. My sense is that you are the way that the configuration evolves, and actually the way that the configuration evolves can be replicated in different instances of the same type of atoms. But also, in different mediums, as long as you can make a one-to-one mapping between the two different evolving substrates. If they are evolving in the same way, they will behave in the same way, and it would be you.
If you take a snapshot of time, you’re left with a non-evolving slice of a human being. Just the configuration of atoms at that time slice. There is no information there other than the configuration of the atoms (nevermind velocity etc. because we’re talking about one timeslice, and those things require more than one).
It would be hard to accept that you are nothing more than the configuration of the atoms so let’s say you’re not the configuration. My sense is that you are the way that the configuration evolves, and actually the way that the configuration evolves can be replicated in different instances of the same type of atoms. But also, in different mediums, as long as you can make a one-to-one mapping between the two different evolving substrates. If they are evolving in the same way, they will behave in the same way, and it would be you.