He hosted a kids cooking competition show once. Watching him get down on a panicking 12 year old's level and rebuild their confidence was heartwarming. He also did a cooking show with his own kids. They took full advantage to sass the hell out of him.
He only lays into someone with both barrels if they call themselves a "professional" then act like an idiot. He also hams it up for the American shows.
Given there are people suffering from exactly that. It's also unfortunately common in Alzheimer's patients. The classic example is piano playing.
Muscle memory is a short hand for changes to the low level reactions. It's a mix of brain spine and muscle nerves. E.g. I can still do martial arts moves fine from reflex, even though I no longer have explicit memories of learning them. A large chunk of our personality is built up of implicit memory. They act in the same way, just internally. E.g. your maths skills are based on implicit memories. The memories that created the skills are long gone, but the skills remain.
You would lose your self identity. Identity as a whole is more than just self identity. It's an amalgam of self, social, familial, governmental identities. This matters even more with things. A car has no sense of self. However, if someone lovingly repaired and replaced the parts, it would maintain its continuity of identity through the changes.
Similarly memory is more complex than one term. I could lose my explicit memory (remembering my past) but keep my implicit memory (skills and muscle type memories). In that case, am I still me? What about the reverse?
At that point it is no longer a yes no question, but a lot of grey creeps in.
Continuity of material, you mean? The paradox disappears when you understand there are multiple types of continuity.
Identity is as much a social structure as a personal one. E.g. in star trek, when Will riker is duplicated. Both have continuity of memory, but Thomas has his continuity of identity broken. Though he doesn't realise this until he meets his eigen twin, who's been continuing on. Even though both are nominally identical at the moment of creation, Will's continuation of his career maintained continuity of identity. Thomas Riker had his broken by being stranded. Hence why Thomas changed his name, while Will continued using Will.
I've not played that one, so no idea.
AI can be a force multiplier for humans, but often can't replace them. The current usage is often idiotic at best.
E.g. excluding the issue of data misuse, an AI system could be extremely helpful to doctors. It could flag possible issues, complications and unusual conditions in a way that would otherwise require a deep dive by a specialist doctor. A doctor or nurse could then parse the results for useful points, while filtering out hallucinations.
The full copy, "cloning" adult body and up to date brain. Think "The 6th Day" film.
Hence why I put "mind" in brackets. I was more referring to Hollywood style "cloning" variants.
It depends if the swapped mind considered themselves me or not (clone's brain?). If not then perceived identity would follow the mind, even if the legal identity didn't.
If it were a clone's mind, we would have to come to some sort of understanding on the subject.
It can quickly get convoluted. E.g. if I became a digital identity, would I be willing to split off versions of myself for particular tasks, only to absorb them later. Conversely, could I function as such an entity? How long would I need to diverge before I became a truly separate entity in my own mind?
The book "Accelerando", by Charles Stross plays with this. He refers to them as eigen-minds. A collection of minds overlapping within a single identity. How liable is a diverged eigen-mind from its alternates, when it comes to contracts and debts?
The challenge is, can you figure out where it is.
All hail the lemming of Lemmy!
I've found a working hypothesis that seems mostly true.
"No-one is the villain of their own story."
If someone seems to be doing something evil for no reason, you likely don't understand their reasoning. It might not be a good reason, from my perspective, but they will have a reason. Once you can figure out where your values differ, it often becomes obvious why they are acting that way.