Max Hodak on Identity
Max Hodak, head of Science Corporation, proposed a criterion for digital continuation of a human: nepretrivnost' of experienced experience, in an interview with No Priors on 20 августа 2026 года. He suggests imagining a brain scanned without destruction and a software replica launched on a computer. The original person can talk to the replica and then die, while the replica continues their work.
Hodak asks in the full transcript of the conversation: "If your brain is scanned and a software simulation of you appears on a computer, will this simulation be you?" The question concerns the fate of the original person: what remains their experience when the copy continues their usual activities. Hodak calls the necessary property fenomenal'naya nepretrivnost' - one continuous experience in which a person perceives themselves and the world.
In a scenario of gradual transfer of brain functions to a computational system, the biological brain and the computational system work together for a long time. Hodak's criterion raises a specific question about this transition: is one stream of experience preserved as the carrier of functions changes? As the head of Science Corporation, which develops medical neurotechnologies, Hodak discusses this topic, including the company's research program creating a biogibridnyi neyrointerfeys, as reported in No Priors, August 2026.
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