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Originally Posted by elphenor
I'm not sure why it should matter if it's an all at once change or an over time replacement
Physically you are made of none of the matter you were a decade or so ago as far as I understand it
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Exactly. My (and I'm assuming everyone else's) threshold for yes/no on human+ is whether the consciousness I had before has ceased to exist and unknowingly been replaced with a duplicate. Whether the consciousness that I was born with ceased to exist without my knowledge somewhere during my body's replacement of my cells over the years is related obviously, but so long as I don't notice I suppose it's a moot point, cause wuddaya gon' do? Same idea as Star Trek teleportation.
And I don't know how you would define consciousness in the sense of it being a continuous process throughout an organism's life though, which is where the uncertainty comes in.