Re:'With brain preservation, nobody has to die'
by coldtea on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @05:05PM
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>Which one is the original? Say we aren't making a computer copy but duplicate of your body. And we might have messed up the labels.
Reality doesn't care about the labels. One of the two pre-existed, which is the original.
>How do you tell which one is the original? Atoms don't have labels.
That's a problem regarding our knowledge. There's still an original, regardless if we know which or not.
There's an original even regardless whether the original has a way to prove to themselves they are so (as opposed to simply believing they are, which the clone would believe too).
How do you tell which one is the original? Atoms don't have labels. But atom-level copy isn't possible. Say we made the scan at large enough scale that has fidelity but it isn't identical.