IsaacLeavitt wrote:
D34TH_D34L3R wrote:
LaidBackNinja wrote:
This is an interesting argument.
Well, wouldn't it basically be something like; before the old hard disk gets replaced by the new hard disk, the data on the old hard disk, gets transferred to the new hard disk.. but than with cells?
I mean; taking on your opinion that the data gets lost once your brain cells die and are replaced, than that would ALSO mean that all other data would be lost to.. In other words; wouldn't you lose everything else you know (how to do)? Wouldn't you lose the ability to speak/write/etc. ?
I think that the data just gets transferred onto the new cells when they get replaced.. Therefore not losing your memory..
good point but cells replicate themselves EXACTLY, they do not change in the replication proccess unless they become cancerous (then killed by white blood cells) so that cannot be the explination...
Hmm.. I don't know, I'm an economist, not a scientist..
OK, I seriously don't know how, but I presume that nature has found a way to pass on data from old/dying cells to the replacing cells..
But let's just say that it is indeed as you said; your soul = memory. Than why don't you have to relearn your abilities to speak / write / swim / ride a bycicle / ... every time your cells are replaced with new ones?
And these are basic human actions that every normal human can do if they have learned these, and they don't just forget them, unless they have an accident or so that leads to brain damage to the parts of the brain that contains this information. If you receive brain damage to a certain part of the brain that controlls speach for example, you will lose the ability to speak. Which show that only those cells contained that data, and now that they're lost, you no longer have the ability to speak. Wouldn't this mean that the data that allows you to speak IS indeed passed on from old to new cells?
If so, can't you asume that the same works for the human memory?
Of course what you remember, and what you don't remember and what determines this.. THAT I don't know
Last edited by D34TH_D34L3R (2007-01-18 08:54:04)