• very_well_lost@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I hate to break it to you, but our meat brains don’t even have continuity of consciousness. We become unconscious all the time. The only real constant is the “hardware” our consciousness emerges from, but even that is always changing.

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      2 months ago

      I don’t get the down votes. Did y’all forget about sleep? No one vividly dreams every night all night long. Often it’s the fade to black going to sleep then the sudden awakening.

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          2 months ago

          How would you know?

          How do you know you’re not a copy of yesterday’s you? If a clone has your memories and you’re not around anymore, then what’s the difference?

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            2 months ago

            You’d have to experience death for the clone to continue being the only copy.

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              2 months ago

              Yeah. In the example above the original is dead, and a clone with all of your memories up until the point of death is generated.

              In that case, there is continuity of concussions, at least as far as anyone can tell, least of all the clone.

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            2 months ago

            Don’t try to get philosophical about this. There is a hard difference between copying a brain and actually transferring consciousness.

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              Don’t try to get philosophical about this.

              Er? It’s a philosophical conversation since, you know, brain uploading is not a thing.

              If you don’t want to engage in philosophy, you’re in the wrong place.