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When you wake up in the morning billions of your cells have changed from the night before. Are you any less you? It is possible one day you will go to sleep bi

When you wake up in the morning billions of your cells have changed from the night before. Are you any less you? It is possible one day you will go to sleep biologically and wake up non-biologically. It’s just a matter of sufficiently emulating the processes that were present when you were the biological you.

mcculley 6y ago
I have meditated enough to be unconvinced that even the me that goes to sleep is the same guy who woke up that morning. I try to be good to the guy who wakes up with my memories and body the next morning. That makes me no less unhappy about dying.
- dsiroker 6y ago
  That is a refreshing perspective.
- AlphaSquared 6y ago
  From an Islamic religious perspective, the soul is taken out of the body when you sleep and then put back into it when you wake up. Much the same way as when you die. So there you have it :)
- deathanatos 6y ago
  https://existentialcomics.com/comic/1 https://existentialcomics.com/comic/1
- makx 6y ago
  I'd even go so far as to say that the me from 10 minutes ago isn't the same me as now. Consciousness isn't continuous, it arises and ceases. It's our memory that gives us the illusion of continuity. And this is what makes me absolutely unconcerned about dying. From what I read, this is what the Gautama Buddha meant with Anatta[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatta
Trasmatta 6y ago
What if you and the non biological copy both wake up? Which one is "you"? I'm obviously going to care more about the one that I appear to actually be, and won't be happy if me copy decides to kill me. The idea of a continuous self is probably an illusion, but if your body dies that illusion does too. Your copy just lives its own version of that illusion.
ansible 6y ago
Sure, there is plenty of churn with some parts of the body. But it is not as if the brain destroys and creates brain cells at anywhere close to that rate. The neurons and the connections between them are quite long-lasting. I'm going to assume that's the "me" in here, until proven otherwise.

mcculley 6y ago

I have meditated enough to be unconvinced that even the me that goes to sleep is the same guy who woke up that morning. I try to be good to the guy who wakes up with my memories and body the next morning. That makes me no less unhappy about dying.

dsiroker 6y ago
That is a refreshing perspective.
AlphaSquared 6y ago
From an Islamic religious perspective, the soul is taken out of the body when you sleep and then put back into it when you wake up. Much the same way as when you die. So there you have it :)
deathanatos 6y ago
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/1 https://existentialcomics.com/comic/1
makx 6y ago
I'd even go so far as to say that the me from 10 minutes ago isn't the same me as now. Consciousness isn't continuous, it arises and ceases. It's our memory that gives us the illusion of continuity. And this is what makes me absolutely unconcerned about dying. From what I read, this is what the Gautama Buddha meant with Anatta[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatta

Trasmatta 6y ago

What if you and the non biological copy both wake up? Which one is "you"? I'm obviously going to care more about the one that I appear to actually be, and won't be happy if me copy decides to kill me. The idea of a continuous self is probably an illusion, but if your body dies that illusion does too. Your copy just lives its own version of that illusion.

ansible 6y ago

Sure, there is plenty of churn with some parts of the body. But it is not as if the brain destroys and creates brain cells at anywhere close to that rate. The neurons and the connections between them are quite long-lasting. I'm going to assume that's the "me" in here, until proven otherwise.