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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:01:58 EST
Subject: Re: CryoNet #21239 James Bond

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From Yuriy Pichugin:

> A soul in its one body can have its two hands and its two legs by which it 
> can control simultaneously. Why cannot a soul in its two bodies control the 
> 
> bodies at the same time?
> 
Dear Dr. Pichugin, (and other interested),

I am French with a poor command of English, so I don't understand what is 
"soul." Is it the biological equivalent of software? If you think that the 
brain content is wired into the biochemical network of neurons, then soul is 
copied by definition if the brain is copied. If soul is about consciousness, 
then that is about the activity of a fairly primitive brain area. When you 
make a new brain, being a copy or not, you make a new soul if you include 
that area in the copy.

If there are some continuous communications between brains (even if they are 
not copies of each other, even if they are of different species), then there 
may be a "super soul" if the corresponding brain domains work as one. When it 
come to consciousness, the ability to apply to ourselves the modeling of 
others 's behavior capacity, I think we are not the best. Any other social 
species must have a similar brain area and so a soul. The more social the 
species, the strongest the soul. Who has a super soul? termites? mole rats? 
fishes living in schools?

Yvan Bozzonetti.

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