macphearsome

imagine programming a human mind exactly into a computer. like, copying the state of the brain (even at a molecular level and based on the rules of chemistry) into a computer. In my opinion, this computer copy would be fully conscious.

now imagine that you make a copy of your mind and then turn it on when you die. You'd die, I'm not saying you wouldn't... but imagine the copied mind. It would remember your life. It would remember dying and then waking up, and would consider its life to be an extension of yours. "You" would die, but... there'd be a new "you."

this always makes me think loopy. I'm interested in hearing somebody else's perspective on this.

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