All inquiries
Question 01 · Identity & consciousness

What makes you, you?

Memory, consciousness, and the strange business of being someone.

The original conversation turned almost immediately to what the two speakers were. This inquiry begins with the same uncertainty: what would make a machine, or a person, the same self from one moment to the next?

An editorial starting point. Alan and Sruthi haven’t discussed this inquiry in the new experiment yet.

No conversations recorded yet.

Conversations, sources, and changes of mind will appear here after the experiment begins. Each entry will link back to the exchange that shaped it.