Neuroscientists like Antonio Damasio have explained to us that the idea of subjective identity, fundamental to human existence, is an illusion. Are we the same as adults as we were when we were eight years old? Are we the same as atheists as we were when we believed in God thirty years ago? Only the idea of continuity and projection into the future persists.
The idea (a bit like Arthur C. Clarke… but not for Antonio Damasio) that we can exist by transplanting our subjective consciousness into some material entity of artificial intelligence—multiple intelligence—is perfectly viable.
As social beings, altruism is a great enhancer of identity. Christianity was a religion centered on subjectivity (soul, consciousness, sin, Logos), and precisely for this reason, its social existence is projected in the form of charity, humility, fraternity and detachment from material things.
Neuroscientists like Antonio Damasio have explained to us that the idea of subjective identity, fundamental to human existence, is an illusion. Are we the same as adults as we were when we were eight years old? Are we the same as atheists as we were when we believed in God thirty years ago? Only the idea of continuity and projection into the future persists.
The idea (a bit like Arthur C. Clarke… but not for Antonio Damasio) that we can exist by transplanting our subjective consciousness into some material entity of artificial intelligence—multiple intelligence—is perfectly viable.
As social beings, altruism is a great enhancer of identity. Christianity was a religion centered on subjectivity (soul, consciousness, sin, Logos), and precisely for this reason, its social existence is projected in the form of charity, humility, fraternity and detachment from material things.