On a similar basis I take some exception to this statement, regarding individual immortality: > If we’re programs in the computer, then as long as I have a com

On a similar basis I take some exception to this statement, regarding individual immortality: > If we’re programs in the computer, then as long as I have a computer that’s not damaged, I can always re-run the program. You would quite possibly need to dump the entire universe state and re-run it from that point to get anything predictably "you" back out of it - probably not what most people have in mind when they think of a brain in a vat.