When he first wakes up after the surgery, he is unable to put himself in the vat with his brain, named Yorick. Get Access. Read More. Philosophy comparing libertarianism, compatibilism, and determinism Words 10 Pages and ask yourself if the choices you make are truly free or if they are governed by forces outside of your control.
Technical support team sedated him in to dreamless sleep. Awoke with a new body. More so than with sex change operations. So we are not our bodies. But he is no located where his new body is located. Went back to visit his brain Yorik in Houston. He flicked off the output transmitter. Nothing happened, all the senses continued to function as normal.
How could it be? From the beginning they had constructed a computer duplicate of his brain. Reproducing complete information processing structure and computational speed of his brain in a giant computer program.
Run this computer system and Yorick side by side. Incoming signals from Hamlet his body sent to both Yorick and the inputs on this computer. Outputs from Yorick go back to Hamlet his body but recorded and checked against the simultaneous outputs of the computer program Hubert. Outputs were identical. Flipped the master switch so Hubert the computer was in on-line control of his body Fortinbras, not Hamlet--Hamlet was left underground and disintegrated.
The brain is just a computer program? There is no compelling non-circular reason to claim that the person with Gretchen's brain is Gretchen with a different body; you could just as easily say the resulting person is Mary with a different brain.
So in Dennett's story, by Gretchen's argument, Dennett has really died, since his body has died. The person walking around now Yorick controlling Fortinbras is Fortinbras with a new brain.
What does Dennett say on the subject of his death? Nothing at all. It is perfectly clear to Dennett that he cannot have died if death means permanent cessation of consciousness; he is obviously still conscious. But who exactly is conscious: Dennett-Yorick or Fortinbras-Yorick? Sveinung Dalatun rated it really liked it Jul 27, Nathan Ethridge rated it liked it Sep 16, Fatma rated it really liked it Dec 30, Zoltan rated it it was amazing Nov 18, Jimmy rated it really liked it Mar 12, Abdul Afzal rated it liked it Apr 10, Randy Levine rated it liked it May 17, Christina rated it really liked it Mar 10, Alex rated it really liked it Aug 11, Leoni rated it really liked it Feb 20, Noshin rated it it was amazing Feb 04, Crystal rated it it was amazing Sep 12, There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
Be the first to start one ». Readers also enjoyed. Science Fiction. Short Stories. About Daniel C. Daniel C. Daniel Clement Dennett III is a prominent philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, science, and biology, particularly as they relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science.
Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. Dennett is a noted atheist, avid sailor, and advocate of the Brights move Daniel Clement Dennett III is a prominent philosopher whose research centers on philosophy of mind, science, and biology, particularly as they relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science. Dennett is a noted atheist, avid sailor, and advocate of the Brights movement. Dennett received his B. In , he received his D.
He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in He was the co-founder and co-director of the Curricular Software Studio at Tufts University, and has helped to design museum exhibits on computers for the Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Science in Boston, and the Computer Museum in Boston.
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