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Presumably we'd only be killing off the originals once they were malfunctioning to the point where continuing to live was not a pleasant experience. At that po

Presumably we'd only be killing off the originals once they were malfunctioning to the point where continuing to live was not a pleasant experience. At that point plenty of people that don't have "backups" are happy to die, so as long as that's how it was happening, then the fact that you're copied into another body is just a bonus, this body is going to die anyways. Further, once you did the switch at least once and had the memory of "waking up" in a new body, you'd have a lot more confidence that "you" would still exist after the transfer.

gnaritas 16y ago
> Presumably we'd only be killing off the originals once they were malfunctioning to the point where continuing to live was not a pleasant experience. I see no reason to presume that; if it worked at all, you'd expect people of all ages to upgrade immediately. > Further, once you did the switch at least once and had the memory of "waking up" in a new body, you'd have a lot more confidence that "you" would still exist after the transfer. That rather is the point of my question... You didn't wake up, a copy did, you got killed afterwards and knew you were about to die. The point was to question the idea that you could ever be uploaded in a meaningful sense. What I personally see actually happening, is people being enhanced to the point where implants make up more of their consciousness than the real brain does and they feel so disabled without the implants on that they no longer see themselves as whole without them. At some point, our idea of consciousness will simply change and then it'll be no big deal killing off the biological part and going pure machine, gradually.