Barry Lamb
speaker
704 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2022
last heard Apr 2023
Barry Lamb’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The original is what matters.
And so on this view, no person can survive the death of their body.
The final view is one that is a lot closer to the one Justin is expressing and the one that we're familiar with in science fiction and body swapping movies.
This is the view that what needs to survive in order for a person to survive is a certain kind of information.
A kind of information in a person's mind that makes that person different from every other person.
These are things like memories, personality traits, ways of talking, ways of reacting emotionally.
All of these things reside in a particular brain and a particular body when a person is alive.
But what's important is not the brain or body.
But the information itself.
Take a song that you've recorded on your hard drive.
You sang it on the guitar and there it is, a digital recording in a six megabyte file.
If you want that song to survive, you only need to make sure the digital information that encodes that recording is on some drive somewhere.
It doesn't have to be the exact hard drive you originally recorded it on.
It could be on the cloud or on multiple hard drives in a lot of different locations.
It doesn't even have to be on a hard drive.
A C D will do.
If the original hard drive is destroyed.
Even if the song is on it, that wouldn't matter.
The song survives as long as the digital data does.
Unlike the Mona Lisa.
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