Ship of Theseus by Sandra Wagner

Ship of Theseus by Sandra Wagner

What if you could replace every neuron in your brain with an exact duplicate, but instead of a nerve cell made of flesh, it was made of silicon? Every dendrite, every synapse would be replaced with an identically functioning quantum computer. Would you still be YOU? If not, at what point do you stop being a person and simply a computer that emulates a person?

What if you were a spiritual person while your brain was flesh and blood? Would you still be spiritual after you were turned into a collection of computers? Would you still consider yourself to have a soul?

Ralph Chalmers is killed in an automobile accident and has his brain transcribed to a computer. Ralph faces a number of difficulties from his family and from a society that has not quite caught up with the technological revolution that can eliminate death . but at a terrible cost.

Wagner, Sandra: - Sandra Wagner grew up and attended college in northern Colorado, and retired in 2008 after many years as a chemist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. She now teaches chemistry part time at Adams State University. Sandra's mother-in-law, Carol Ann Wethrill, is a fourth-generation native of the Upper Rio Grande, and has been meticulously collecting local and family stories over her eighty-four years. They started jointly writing history articles back in 2006 for the Lake City, Colorado newspaper.

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ISBN 13	9781945355370
ISBN 10	1945355379
Titel	Ship of Theseus
Autor	Sandra Wagner
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Rocket Science Productions, LLC
Erscheinungsjahr	2016-11-08
Seitenanzahl	234
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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