'With brain preservation, nobody has to die'

Re:'With brain preservation, nobody has to die' by kelnos on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @04:25PM (#42311669)

> This isn't preserving, it's copying. A copy of your brain/personality/you... isn't you... it's a copy. It's a cassette tape playing back the radio you recorded onto it.

That's just one opinion, though. We still don't know what consciousness really is. We don't know what makes us who we are. We don't know if some concept (scientific or supernatural) of a "soul" exists apart from the behavior that arises from the physical structures of the brain.

We just don't know. So maybe you're right, but that's far from clear.

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Re:'With brain preservation, nobody has to die' by wutwutwat on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @04:42PM (#42311864)

I'd agree with you, except if my brain was scanned and uploaded to the cloud, I'd still exist in my original brain. There can't be two originals of something so the cloud version would be a copy of me, since the original me would still be alive, able to talk to the copy of me living in the cloud.

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