I figured this thread would yield the best place for this question.
What is personality? In that is it a quantifiable thing you can create?
I got to this thought because I was thinking about the idea of teleportation and that if that was ever possible it would require the creation of a genetic/person code than is than transferred and recreated at the destination. This than reminded me of 'the big bang theory' tv show when Sheldon says his clone wont be different it will be exactly the same.
Now that got me to the question. How would personality be recreated or measured than created. I understand that the brain and its circuits all have an impact on how we act and the recreation of those would yield similar personalities, but we can always choose a different path. However what about those things that are not created. For instance what happens if someone is faced with a new situation and they had no previous developed pathways to naturally follow, how do we know that we are creating a person who would make the same decision every time or how do we know those things separate like morals would remain the same.
The same goes for stored information, If we could look closely, can we measure the information stored in each neuron?
Basically in science is there a physical manifestation or measurement that one could in theory clone a personality or recreate the knowledge someone knows, how do we measure these unphysical parts of the human body.
Its a philosophical question to a point and while blowing my mind and spacing me out at times it intrigues me.
