THE SOUL SHIFTER Soul Net U n i v e r s e W i d e - W e b These are the changes taking place as your trillions of simualtaniously but different souls per minute go through daily experiences and form new memories. This number at any one time represents everything that you are and can know up until that moment. Fly freely throughout the universe. Anywhere instantly at the speed of light Just dont get tangled up in the process of recieving updates from your multiple selves. Remember that wherever you are that is where you are at and all you need to do is get connected with your selves.		The self is produced by a large number of units, (nerve cells), which are connected together in particular ways so that when stimulated cause the 'I' to emerge.
If a machine were made of the same number of simular, but mechanical units, connected together and stimulated in exactly the same manner, as in a particular brain, then that same self would emerge. This,in a similar way that your self is emerging at this moment.
If the self is a result of processes and not the particular units which produce this process, then if this process takes place with an entirely different set of units it would be the same process.
		This would be the case even if not one atom from the original body were present. Even if this artificial brain were made out of non-biological materials that in no way resembled those in the human brain, that self would proceed through moments.
		Every seven years all atoms (units) in the body are changed, through metabolism and cellular degradation. If all units of our bodies are replaced numbers of times during our lives how could we be the same self? (Hint; we are a process.)
		Once again, if a person were frozen and all bodily activities were stopped, how could it be the same person if revived? Does the self depend upon the continuity of a particular set of processes or the maintanance of a particular set of atoms and molecules?
		Think of a sports team, the players come and go, but the team keeps it's persona. It is very easy to confuse particular players with the team. In a simular way we confuse the matter that we are made out of with the -'self'-. Since we have only one body during our entire lifetime isn't it common sense to suppose that our self depends upon -'this'- body?
Certain players, of course, effect team moral and fan participation, but whoever the players, if they follow the rules of the game, would constitute a team. New players come and old players go but the team 'spirit' remains.
The Number If your brain could be stopped and a snapshot taken of the position and charge of every nerve cell and we could arrange the nerve cells in another brain would it be you? Your soul could then be represented and produced by one very large number. A number which reflects the location and charge of all nerve cells in your brain at this time; one frame of consciousness. Once activated, this other brain could then proceed, as you would, to experience the moment and successive moments.
Wherever there is a Resurrection Machine, this soul number could be fed into it. This would cause artificial neurons to become arranged into a rerepresentation of the world simular to the arrangement that is rerepresenting the world in your head at this moment.
Wherever your number is played there you will be. You are now here because the cells in your head have happened to become arranged in this manner; playing your soul. This manner of arrangement just happens to =equal= all your memories and experiences up until a few moments ago.
	If my brain contains all of the memories that I can experience, and this brain state were reduced to a number, all of my memories would be contained there and ready to happen upon being loaded into a soulshifter and run. Every memory, experience and brain state, will result when this number is played. At any moment I can access many memories and their availability is incorperated in the state (number representing a particular moment).
	Your brain is playing you now and your number changes with every moment but continues to contain your memories along with these new memories of experiences. The difference between today and a few days ago is reflected in changes of this number. The number is finite and therefore limits your possible experiences. Even though seemingly infinite there are only so many thoughts and memories that you can or could have.
	This number will represent the arrangement of nerve cells that allows you to be you at this moment.
	Once again;
	Your brain is doing these very things at this moment.
To deny some of these assumptions is to deny that you are existing right now.
New memories result from changes in the conductivity between particular nerve cells and their sizes, shapes, and lengths. When particular nerve cells are used frequently charges move across the synapse with less resistence. When particular nerve cells are stimulated they grow in length. When regularly stimulated nerves that have grown in length stop recieving stimulation their length is reduced.
The Basic Self The Same Basic Self. The Same Basic Eye. The Same Basic Nose. How different are each of our senses of sight and hearing? Are not we all made of cells?
The Same basic Self We Share It. Like we all share a simular basic existence. We could all be the same self with different memories or each could be one of a set of selves that can exist in possible consciousness producing devices.
With all the conscious organisms around, could they really experience life differently? When a pet appears to have emotions and they seem simular to human expessions are these a result of a difference in kind or of degree?

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