'With brain preservation, nobody has to die'

Re:'With brain preservation, nobody has to die' by ben_w on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @04:17PM (#42311561)

I view (hypothetical, sufficiently good) brain upload and emulation the way I view git forks: both children are just as equally "the real one" even if only one of them is on the same physical hard drive.

Looking forward from now, both bio-me and digital-fork-me (or indeed bio-fork-me if the upload gets revented) are equally "my future self", even though they would also each be distinct beings in their own rights and not a shared consciousness over many bodies.

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Re:'With brain preservation, nobody has to die' by someuser2345 on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @05:50PM (#42312525)

I think that from everyone else's perspective, an ideal copy of me would be me; by the definition of "ideal copy". I, however, would not consider the copy to be me; to me, there is only one me.

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