Abolitionist:the copy believes it is me, but is programmed to live in the same Darwinian condition - though I think it might be difficult to keep the truth a secret from the copy, maybe not...
I don't understand.
If I learned that I was a copy, I'd probably become psychotic.
Why? As I explained, being a copy doesn't make you any less valuable...
It may be possible to replicate a neuron (seems likely that they are just complicated on/off switches) but for the copy to be identical it would have to have the same exact properties as the original in all aspects. Are there any theories about how the rest of the brain might be replicated?
Don't know. It's just physics; it's possible to emulate, however hard.
Google search turns up many differing perspectives on the dancing qualia thought experiment.
I understand that these are theories to be put to the test and anything is possible.
The way I see it, Occam's razor suggests that carbon-basedness probably isn't important to consciousness at all - only information processing matters.