ronnyhugo

ronnyhugo t1_iwu1p5k wrote

Reply to comment by priscilla_halfbreed in When does an individual's death occur if the biological brain is gradually replaced by synthetic neurons? by NefariousNaz

When are you on the way to your destination? Every step of the way there.

Theseus: Just keep the parts you take off and you have TWO boats.

You can just put those synthetic neurons in a new box (skull shaped box) and end up with the original brain AND the synthetic copy.

Lets imagine this thought-experiment:

Imagine that you sit on a tractor-seat and gradually build a really advanced tractor around yourself. A tractor so advanced it can do everything all by itself, including what your brain can do. The tractor thinks in the way you think and has a copy of all your memories. When you step out of the completed tractor the tractor continues on its merry way. Your consciousness never went anywhere.

OR we could gradually hack off pieces of your body and brain, replacing them with tractor parts. Which would obviously lead to your death gradually, slightly more so with every step.

PS: And if anyone goes "but making a synthetic human isn't like this", yes it is, you just make the tractor parts in the shape of the farmer.

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ronnyhugo t1_iwm717o wrote

Reply to comment by Fancy_Put5353 in The Solution of Evil by baileyjn8

>True but consciously even without a brain just like other animals without it we’ll still commit evil.

Animals without brains don't exist.

Humans can't exist without a brain, our bodily functions would not function. You are completely and utterly missing the point.

In a universe with just photons, there is no evil. There is nothing that can act evil and there is nothing that could be the victim of evil. Light particles don't care if you torture it, it is not possible to torture light particles or otherwise make them suffer. THAT is the point.

So if God exists, God demands brains to be capable of worshipping God, and thus God is evil. Because God made a universe where evil can exist at all. God made a universe where suffering is possible.

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ronnyhugo t1_iwm67rl wrote

Reply to comment by Fancy_Put5353 in The Solution of Evil by baileyjn8

We're talking about deities, its all unrealistic. The point being that in universes where atoms cannot form at all, and thus stars don't make heavier elements than hydrogen, there is no evil there. So if God made only such universes, God could be good AND all-powerful.

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ronnyhugo t1_iwlxum8 wrote

Reply to comment by Fancy_Put5353 in The Solution of Evil by baileyjn8

Evil has nothing to do with laws or religion, if there are no brains there is no suffering and no one imposing suffering on others. Not even an ant being burnt by a little kid with a magnifying glass.

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ronnyhugo t1_iwk6ujq wrote

Reply to The Solution of Evil by baileyjn8

This is so dumb, if there was never any brains capable of sensing anything, there would be no evil. So God's need for worship would be the reason for evil, thus, God is evil.

That is of course if God actually existed, but no one who can "hear the voice of God" have thus far done anything useful with it, like answer the P vs NP millennium prize problem.

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