I'm I still the same person? Virtually all my cells have

>>9031212
Well at least this version of you doesn't shit himself as much.

The information is largely the same, no?

Memory feedback loops

>>9031212
Of course you're you. That guy from 10 years ago died 10 years ago when he became that guy from 9.999 years ago etc.

You're always you, because you own nothing but the present.

as you grow up your face will change, your skin will wrinkle and darken, but your eyes will remain the same
so deep

>>9031212
most of your brain is still the same, your body is just there to help your brain move around

>>9031212
Your consciousness is an infomorph that runs on your brain. If I hooked you up to a giant computer, migrated your consciousness onto it's hardware, and then killed your human body, you wouldn't notice. You'd still be you, too. You think, therefore you are.

That's basically what's happening to you right now, only less extreme. The atoms that made up your 5 year old body still exist, but they aren't you because they no longer encode the infomorph that is your mind.

You're the software. Your brain is the hardware.

the self is an illusion in the first place

>>9031212
you are not your cells or atoms, you are the structure of emergent properties that rides the cells or atoms through time, like the crest of a wave.

>>9032734
this, one million times this.

>>9031212
You are a pattern. Regardless of the material, as long as the pattern remains, you will exist.

are neurons also replaced? how is memory possible if so?

>>9034117
All I can tell you: memory is fuzzy and unreliable
Neurons get purged

>>9032734
answer


this whole thread is why /sci/ needs to get their heads out of their asses and read philosophy

>>9034133
>this whole thread is why /sci/ needs to get their heads out of their asses and read philosophy
Why philosophy when neuroscience and biology can tell you the same
Also what do you mean when you say philosophy? Gud stuff or /lit/ and /his/ tier philosophy?

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>>9034143
>Whole family will dis-own you if you fail class

DO TEST NOW

>>9034143
neuroscience and biology work just aswell, yes

mathematics just dosent answer everything

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>>9034147
>Fail test! You lose everything!
>Animistic panic instincts kick in

>>9034150
what is this hot new meme

>>9034152
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow

Only the coolest psychologist ever, way better than Freud. "He stressed the importance of focusing on the positive qualities in people, as opposed to treating them as a "bag of symptoms."

>>9034147
I was hoping you could give me some good contemporary philosophy
Something along the lines of Stuart Kauffman but less repetitive

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>>9031212
Neurons, the Brain Cells are never replaced as you age.

Neurons can die in dementia, strokes & head injuries.

Interesting question

If we are simply emergent systems, and the universe goes on forever, then we would have a form of eternal life, even through death. Because eventually we would emerge again.

>>9034154
cool man
>>9034156
read sam harris work on the self desu

>>9034163
Thanks it means a lot to me

>>9034163
If you can't get respect or belonging anywhere, you can love your self, respect your self, etc.... just a thought. But then you have to mentally reject out of society in a way.

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>continuing >>9034159
When Brain Cells die, they are never replaced. But the amount decrease very slowly through our lives.

The Brain cell amount drop faster in dementia, schizophrenia, strokes & head injuries.

>>9034167
intradesting

>>9034177
Yep, but we all urge to be a part of society so it's a catch 22 of sorts.

>>9034179
>/sci/ tries anything thats not math

>>9034181
the pain is too deep my friend I am broken inside

>>9031212
Oh, dear ship of Theseus, it's has been a long time since the last time I've heard of you, how have you been? Did you got all your parts changed again?