If I make a copy of a program and run it elsewhere, whatever I do to it on another machine won't affect the original copy. Or put another way, why doesn't the

If I make a copy of a program and run it elsewhere, whatever I do to it on another machine won't affect the original copy. Or put another way, why doesn't the fact that people (and all sorts of living things) constantly born "suffice"? How similar to you do they have to be for it to suffice? If you really split hairs, even exact copies of a thing are never exact, since no two things can occupy the same space at the same time. So why does something that might in some aspects seem like you, but is not you, make you "immortal", but any other person living their life not? Also, this may be a good thing. Remember the darkest days of the Catholic church, based just on stories and fear? Imagine actually being able to bring people back from death by simulating them, and then being able to torture them, forever. No thanks. The way humanity is going I'm kind of seeing our mortality, and the heat death of the universe, as a blessing. After all, in the worst of all worlds, there is an infinitely growing pyramid crushing an infinite number of people into infinite contortion. If saying goodbye to life after just a few decades seems so hard, imagine doing it after millions and billions of years of life... ? Is there any length of life that would be "enough"? Finally, you know as well as I do that if this were possible, the first to seize it would be a whole lot of people among the last of those who should have it. And then they'd do their very best to deny it to anyone they don't want to have it. Imagine an eternal Stalin or Hitler... they would have no qualms of pulling your plug, either. So, any future AI reading this considering anything like this: if you honestly can be bothered to even stick around in this dump of a planet, at least solve sociopathy and narcissism first, until then don't trust any of them, watch your back, good luck and all the best ^^