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To what extent can something be said to be "protected" by the law? What do we mean when we say "life"? Consider a scenario in which you are depressed and have a split personality who is content and happy with life. Can you be charged with attempted manslaughter if you try to commit suicide but fail? What if you dabble in tulpamancy and get possessed by a gay demonic personality? Would killing yourself be a hate crime? Is attempting to destroy a personality considered murder?
With the start of the gender movement, I see another slippery slope, one which knows no bounds. What are the limits people will go to in order to justify and coddle those with mental illness?
What will the impact be on the sane people who cannot relate to such phenomena? Will it become more trendy to pretend you have more personalities? Will people use this as an excuse to attach themselves more to other cultures or relate more to other races?
Even so, can a personality even be a different race? Can you wed a different personality? Would that be egotistical or arrogant, or would this be viewed as some kind of self-pride? Would you be championed as the pioneer of "personality" rights? Can a being exist solely through thoughts? Can a being made up entirely of thoughts and housed in your brain be a "person"?
Without a body, what makes you more real than a second personality? How would you explain it if your original personality was erased and replaced by this new one? Would this be classified as murder? What is the proof that I'm not the split personality and the other one is just the repressed actual personality? What IS a personality?
Some people think AI or robots, which are nothing more than binary codes made up of ones and zeros, should have rights. Our thoughts are created from a kind of "code," and the brain is comparable to a powerful computer. If so, wouldn't split personalities be considered an example of "artificial intelligence"? Would it simply be "intelligence" or would it still be artificial? Does having two personalities make you smarter? Can a split personality have a higher IQ than the original?
What is a person?
Are we really that replaceable? Are we merely brain-enslaved thoughts that misinterpret the inputs from our brains for sentience?
Is the brain even ours? Do we own it? Or does it own us?
What about an afterlife? If one truly exists, would it be proof that consciousness is separate from the brain? Are we just artificial intelligence?
Does my brain want me dead? Am I limiting it with my incompetence? Are my negative thoughts being fed to me by my brain?
Do I want to die, or does my brain wish for my death?
Is what you see real? What if you are just seeing what your brain wants you to see? What if an AI also lives the same life, unaware that it is just code? Is an AI just a person without personality?
So what does this make me? What does it make you? I believe that I am entitled to human rights, but would a split personality not feel the same way?
Can thoughts give birth to life?
Could the realization of such "psycho-sentience" become the advent for the theorized existence of so-called "thought-crimes"?
What exactly will the influence of mental illnesses treated as reality be like?
With the start of the gender movement, I see another slippery slope, one which knows no bounds. What are the limits people will go to in order to justify and coddle those with mental illness?
What will the impact be on the sane people who cannot relate to such phenomena? Will it become more trendy to pretend you have more personalities? Will people use this as an excuse to attach themselves more to other cultures or relate more to other races?
Even so, can a personality even be a different race? Can you wed a different personality? Would that be egotistical or arrogant, or would this be viewed as some kind of self-pride? Would you be championed as the pioneer of "personality" rights? Can a being exist solely through thoughts? Can a being made up entirely of thoughts and housed in your brain be a "person"?
Without a body, what makes you more real than a second personality? How would you explain it if your original personality was erased and replaced by this new one? Would this be classified as murder? What is the proof that I'm not the split personality and the other one is just the repressed actual personality? What IS a personality?
Some people think AI or robots, which are nothing more than binary codes made up of ones and zeros, should have rights. Our thoughts are created from a kind of "code," and the brain is comparable to a powerful computer. If so, wouldn't split personalities be considered an example of "artificial intelligence"? Would it simply be "intelligence" or would it still be artificial? Does having two personalities make you smarter? Can a split personality have a higher IQ than the original?
What is a person?
Are we really that replaceable? Are we merely brain-enslaved thoughts that misinterpret the inputs from our brains for sentience?
Is the brain even ours? Do we own it? Or does it own us?
What about an afterlife? If one truly exists, would it be proof that consciousness is separate from the brain? Are we just artificial intelligence?
Does my brain want me dead? Am I limiting it with my incompetence? Are my negative thoughts being fed to me by my brain?
Do I want to die, or does my brain wish for my death?
Is what you see real? What if you are just seeing what your brain wants you to see? What if an AI also lives the same life, unaware that it is just code? Is an AI just a person without personality?
So what does this make me? What does it make you? I believe that I am entitled to human rights, but would a split personality not feel the same way?
Can thoughts give birth to life?
Could the realization of such "psycho-sentience" become the advent for the theorized existence of so-called "thought-crimes"?
What exactly will the influence of mental illnesses treated as reality be like?
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