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Re:JEDEC Publishes GDDR7 Graphics Memory Standard by drtgh on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @05:19PM (#39609878)
>will be more of a transfer of your consciousness

Sounds like a copy, not a transfer. If you didn't physically transport the atoms, the matter, you would end up with two duplicates living at different places and time, and with different ways of thinking after the copy, as the living experiences will diverge from that moment.

This unless you exterminate the original with each copy. Also should be considered each copy may lose information, degrade (signal integrity through distance, number of travels, and so on).

Re:JEDEC Publishes GDDR7 Graphics Memory Standard by codetrotter on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @06:06PM (#39610258)
> unless you exterminate the original with each copy

The problem of synchronization is gonna be particularly nasty in this case.

Re:JEDEC Publishes GDDR7 Graphics Memory Standard by reaperman on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @02:09AM (#39613169)
The two generals problem suddenly gets very personal consequences.
Re:JEDEC Publishes GDDR7 Graphics Memory Standard by lIIllIIllIIllII on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @10:07PM (#39611838)
sure, but I don't even know how to differentiate between copying my brain and being in a coma, or just falling asleep really deeply. waking up sometimes feels like enough of a discontinuity
Re:JEDEC Publishes GDDR7 Graphics Memory Standard by fennecbutt on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @05:22AM (#39614377)
Idk I'd say that the clone theory also applies to our every waking moment, each fraction of a second we're no longer the same person, even in the same body.

And most certainly after sleep.

Re:JEDEC Publishes GDDR7 Graphics Memory Standard by pyinstallwoes on Thursday March 07, 2024 @12:19AM (#39625314)
How do you ensure continuity from frame of reference (observer consciousness?)
Re:JEDEC Publishes GDDR7 Graphics Memory Standard by fennecbutt on Sunday March 10, 2024 @11:09PM (#39664591)
I don't know if there is true continuity. As we age our memories become memories of memories. Just as we don't see the nose between our eyes I think our brains turn a stuttered disjointed consciousness into what seems like a continuous stream.

It's like walking into a room and forgetting why you walked in there.