Charles Liu

Ah, there you go.

There you go.

The fact that you have an appendix, does that make you different from when you have your appendix removed because it got infected?

Are you the same as you were before?

And if you aren't, what is it about removing that particular part of you?

Is it that part's consciousness, that part's quantum effects, that part's physical effects that make you a different person?

Consider it on an even deeper level, right?

Surgery isn't necessary.

Our skin cells completely cycle through every month or so, right?

Everything that used to be the dermis, epidermis, and then it flakes off.

Yeah, they slough off and...

It is completely true that none of us here at this meeting have the same skin cells that we did when we were growing up.

Maybe not even, yeah, might be not even same muscle cells.

We have a lot of the same bone cells, a lot of the same brain cells, but a lot of them are gone now, right?

But our consciousness continues.

And in fact, our consciousness continues to grow because we continue to experience things, you and I. I think my consciousness is enriched and improved because I'm hanging out with you guys today, right?

How does our consciousness continue even though our physical characteristics have discontinued?

I think that's a very good point.

And so this question that Cindy has about quantum consciousness, right, is that point.

Can the quantum properties that are inherent in our brains or in our overall physical systems allow us to hold together something, what we're calling consciousness, that persists despite our physical changes being so radical?