What proportion of a human body can be exchanged

93 jbml thln
FOR
MANUFACTURED HARDWARE
IS NOT MERELY AN ETHICAL QUESTION ~
I (ml) AM PERSONALLY CERTAIN THAT IF PROGRESSIVELY REPLACING
MY BODY PARTS WITH ROBOTIC ELEMENTS AND FINALLY ALSO SWAPPING MY BRAIN
WITH AN INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE COULD PRODUCE A SENTIENT BEING,
THE ASSEMBLED STSTEM WOULD NEVERTHELESS CONSTITUTE A
"him" and not provide "me"
with a continuous & coherent experience
of the transition
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Reductionist scientism
distorts the significance of subjective experience
by pretending to treat it scientifically, but a possible more dangerous consequence of restricting legitimacy to empirical phenomena
is the countervailing tendency to "elevate" inherently subjective experience to the status of scientific truth. I (ml) suffer no illusion that followers of "intelligent design" would stop camouflaging their faith as science if only evolutionists were more respectful of faith-based meaning systems alongside empirically demonstrable explanation, but acknowledging the distinction may help eliminate one source of confusion in the public discourse.
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