The basilisk is one of those things that just never made sense to me, it’s just a god in another form. I don’t buy that a simulated version of me is a “me” I ne

The basilisk is one of those things that just never made sense to me, it’s just a god in another form. I don’t buy that a simulated version of me is a “me” I need to worry about, any more a clone is. If I’m cloned I won’t wake up as two people, a new version of me will wake up and we’ll be two different people. If my consciousness is replicated by a computer, a version of me will “wake up” that is a new person. I’ll still be dead and gone, I won’t have a perception of being reborn. You can’t blackmail me, unless for some odd reason I’m sure that a computer will torture programs based on me in some unknown future. For this to work there needs to be something like a soul, and then we’re back to religion.