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I honestly think this is only "scary" the first time. After that, you will have the experience of "dying and being resurrected" and since everything went fine
by neals 7y ago
I honestly think this is only "scary" the first time.
After that, you will have the experience of "dying and being resurrected" and since everything went fine that last time, the next time is less of a concern.
- zepto 7y agoAfter that the copies will be deluded into thinking they survived death while in fact they died.
- Symmetry 7y agoHah, maybe. And maybe we die every night when we go to sleep and are only deluding ourselves into thinking we're the same person who went to sleep. But ultimately "dead" is a matter for us living beings to define, the universe itself has no notion of elan vital that discriminates between the living and the dead.
- zepto 7y agoA useful thought experiment is to consider a machine that first duplicates a person and then drops the original into a meat grinder. The duplicate that steps out would be identical to the original and have no memory of having been ground. Would you step into such a machine, safe in the knowledge that from the point of view of the universe and all other living beings, you would emerge unharmed?
- neals 7y agoNetflix: "Living with yourself"
- Symmetry 7y agoWell, there'd be two consciousnesses produced both of which I'd think of as me, pre-duplication. And one would die in horrible pain. I'd really rather not die in horrible pain even if there was still a me around afterward, though you could probably offer a large enough inducement that I'd take it. Of course, there exist inducements that would get me to consent to the meat grinder without duplication
- zepto 7y agoI’m curious what kind of inducements would get you to consent to the meat grinder without duplication?
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoYou must not be very creative if you can't think of any. Off the top of my head: 1. Credible threat of ceaseless torture as an alternative. 2. Credible threat death to your offspring. 3. Credible threat of death and injury to many other people. All of these are reasons people are frequently documented to willfully cause their own demise.
- jodrellblank 7y agoHugh Jackman does, in the film "The Prestige" - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482571/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482571/ - with the inducement being "to perform the greatest magic trick" and one-up Christian Bale.
- garmaine 7y agoYour brain doesn’t shut down when you sleep. You just stop forming memories.