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minus-square@samus12345linkEnglish2•edit-211 months ago The transporter has a heck of a time saving your consciousness/soul. It shouldn’t. If it’s able to copy your brain at the molecular level, There’s no reason your memories and sense of self shouldn’t remain intact.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•10 months agoYou’d be correct, if we actually knew how memories work.
minus-squareAdderbox76linkfedilinkEnglish2•10 months agoWe absolutely do. https://qbi.uq.edu.au/brain-basics/memory/how-are-memories-formed There’s still a fair amount of the world that wants to believe there is some inate “special” sauce that makes us conscious, when in reality it’s all chemicals, hormones, and synapses.
It shouldn’t. If it’s able to copy your brain at the molecular level, There’s no reason your memories and sense of self shouldn’t remain intact.
You’d be correct, if we actually knew how memories work.
I’m no expert, but I thought we largely did.
We absolutely do.
https://qbi.uq.edu.au/brain-basics/memory/how-are-memories-formed
There’s still a fair amount of the world that wants to believe there is some inate “special” sauce that makes us conscious, when in reality it’s all chemicals, hormones, and synapses.